THE HAGUE: A passenger plane skidded along a runway at Amsterdam's busy airport on Thursday as its landing gear collapsed on hitting the ground during heavy winds, but no passengers were injured, officials told AFP. The plane came to rest on the runway, but with its right wing tipped over to the side close to the grass. "The plane's landing gear collapsed as it came in to land," Schiphol spokesman Jacco Bartelds told AFP. The Dutch weather service said winds at times were gusting up between 100-120kmh. Dutch meteorologists have sent out a "code orange" alert for most of the western part of The Netherlands until early Friday.

Source: The Star February 24, 2017 02:25 UTC