Maharashtra: Trainee aircraft skids off runway at Solapur Airport, pilot safe

New Delhi: A trainee aircraft skidded off the runway at Maharashtra’s Solapur Airport on Thursday. The pilot was reportedly trying to take off, when the plane skidded off the runway, said a report in NDTV.

The pilot is safe and was not injured in the accident. So far it is not known how many people were onboard the plane, when the incident happened.

Visuals from the runway of the airport showed the aircraft tilted and its nose touching the ground.

Following the incident security personnel and a police team rushed to the airport. According to reports, the pilot was a woman.

This is not the first time that a trainee aircraft has been involved in an accident. On August 27, 2026, a similar incident was reported from Kanpur. Two pilots were onboard this aircraft. Both of them died in the crash.

The accident happened in Natthupurwa village, close to the Ganga Barrage in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. The police and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA),had said at the time that the plane was on a training flight in the local flying area of Kanpur Civil Airport, when the incident happened.

The 4-seater aircraft crashed in a field, near river Ganga, they said. Onboard were a trainee pilot and an instructor, they added.