A KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flight bound for Amsterdam from Norway skidded off the runway after a hydraulic failure forced the plane to reroute for an emergency landing on Saturday.
The Boeing 737-800 was en route from Oslo, Norway to Amsterdam, but diverted from its planned route and landed at the Oslo Torp Sandefjord Airport after “a loud noise was heard,” the airline said in a statement.
Smoke was spotted coming from the left engine and pilots called in the emergency and said that they couldn’t control the plane, local Norwegian media outlets reported.
After landing on the runway, the aircraft suddenly veered completely off the tarmac “into the grass at low speed.”
All 176 passengers and six crew members onboard were uninjured, KLM said.
Investigators completed their accident investigation at the scene shortly before midnight local time and released the aircraft per the permission of the Accident Investigation Board Norway.
Following the accident, the airport was closed and all scheduled flights were changed over to Oslo Gardemoen Airport.
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A KLM technical team arrived in Sandejford early Sunday morning “to investigate the circumstances of the incident together with local authorities and the airport in accordance with aviation procedure, and retrieve the aircraft as soon as possible,” according to the airline’s statement.
The emergency landing in Norway is just one in a slew of airplane disasters this week alone.
Also on Saturday, a plane landing in South Korea slid off the runway and exploded, killing 181 and leaving just two survivors. The aircraft was also a Boeing 737-800.
On Christmas Day, a flight from Azerbaijan crashed in Kazakhstan after being struck down by a Russian air defense system.
