The Ahmedabad airport has restarted its operation on the Friday morning after a 7 hour shut down that was caused, after a Jet Airways plane was stranded on the runway. Operation returned to normal working only at 04.00 am. Early morning flights were affected on Friday morning but now the flights are back to normal.

The incident occurred when Jet Airways flight 9W 2510 was scheduled to Indore, had its nose wheel come off, and its was stranded on the runway. The airport authorities were trying their best to move the airline with damaging the runway. The Jet Airway flight was scheduled at 08.55 pm last Thursday night.

The plane got stranded in a position which it covered a certain part of the runway, so other flights had difficulty to take off. All the 57 passengers and 4 crew members on board are safe and are taken back to the airport terminal. A crane was used to tow away the aircraft, later the flights resumed.