Cebu Pacific airplane slightly overshoots NAIA runway
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00:00A wide-body Cebu Pacific aircraft that tried to keep itself in the taxiway of the Na'ia Terminal 3
00:05wound up instead foul on the grass, thereby causing trouble and interrupted flights at the country's premier gateway earlier today.
00:13Reports from officials of the Manila International Airport Authority have it that the Cebu Air Pacific
00:19A-321 plane lost track of its proper taxiing from one bay to another this morning around 830 to 9 a.m.
00:27The alleged swerving caused the plane to miss its mark, then drifted towards the grassy area off the taxiway.
00:34A few minutes before 2 o'clock in the afternoon, Cebu Pacific officials announced the aircraft was pulled out of the grass and on its way
00:41to Cebu Pacific's Airline Operations Center. As a result, at least 13 international flights in Na'ia were delayed after 9.30 this morning.
00:51Around that time, Cebu Pacific issued an official apology for the unintended mess and clarified the incident was not a runway overshoot as earlier reported.