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SINGAPORE : A Singapore Airlines A380 plane accidentally ended on the grass verge off the tarmac at Changi Airport's new Terminal 3 on Thursday.
Flight SQ221 involved in the incident was scheduled to depart Singapore for Sydney at 8.30pm.
SIA said a tow truck used to push back the aircraft experienced some hydraulic failure. The truck disconnected from the plane. The plane then rolled off the tarmac, onto a grass verge.
The airline said the plane was not under its own power at the time.
The aircraft's 446 passengers disembarked so that the plane could be positioned back onto the tarmac.
SIA said three-quarters of the passengers had been put on a replacement flight to Sydney on a Boeing 747 aircraft, which took off slightly past midnight. The rest were put on flights to other destinations in Australia.
Some passengers stayed overnight in Singapore and took the first flight out to Sydney the next day.
No one was injured in the incident and SIA said there was no major impact on the aircraft as well.
However, it will investigate the incident and is filing reports with the relevant Singapore authorities.
Mr Steve Forshaw, SIA Spokesperson, said: "It would appear that the impact is quite small. We'll need now to conduct a thorough investigation on the aircraft to make sure all the aircraft components at the landing gear level that have come into contact with the grass are okay. If we need to replace them, we will before the aircraft comes into service." - CNA/vm/de
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