NEW DELHI: An Indian Airlines plane with 98 people on board struck two bulls as its was taking off from an airport in north eastern India on Wednesday but nobody was hurt.

An airline spokesman said the pilot of the Boeing 737 aborted takeoff from Gauhati airport in Assam after two bulls strayed onto the runway.

”Nobody was hurt at all,” he said.

However the aircraft, flying to Calcutta, was badly damaged.

A Fokker Friendship plane operated by India’s second domestic carrier, Vayudoot, crashed near Guahati in October killing all 35 people on board.

Article extracted from this publication >>  January 20, 1989