Air Asia flight overshoots the runway in the Philippines
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-AirAsia passenger plane overshot Kalibo Airport in the Philippines
-Passengers and crew forced to evacuate aircraft using emergency slide
-Panicked Australian passenger shares video of her escape
-Incident was blamed on poor weather caused by tropical storm Seniang
-Nobody hurt, although elderly passengers had blood pressure checked
-Comes hours after bodies found of QZ8501 passengers off Indonesian coast
An AirAsia Zest plane overshot a runway in the Philippines early today, a situation that came amid the frantic search for an AirAsia plane that disappeared just two days earlier in the Java Sea.
The plane had departed from Manila, carrying 159 passengers and crew members.
Giovanni Hontomin, who is in charge of AirAsia Zest's operations, said crew members activated an emergency slide to help passengers disembark safely from the Airbus A320-200 after the plane landed at Kalibo International Airport.
