A Saudi Arabian Airlines plane was travelling from the
Iranian city of Mashhad with 315 passengers on board, forced to make an
emergency landing in the holy city Medina on Sunday, injuring 29 people on 05/01/2014
Sunday morning according to the aviation authority.
The airport was closed and all domestic and international
flights were cancelled due to the closure of the runaway after the plane landed
without wheels because of a technical glitch.
The incident led to the mobilization of a rescue team,
ambulance and fire fighters at the airport after the plane landed in the
runway. Circulated images show
that the damages were at the rear end of the plane.
The official spokesman of the General Authority of Civil
Aviation, Abdullah Al-Khaybari, told Al Arabiya News Channel that 29 passengers
were injured, 11 were transferred to the hospital and 18 had minor injuries and
were treated at the airport clinic,” he said.