An AirEuropa plane with 162 people on board left the runway, Friday, December 30, landing at the airport of Roissy-Charles de Gaulle. No one was injured, officials say.

The AirEuropa plane landed at 9.20pm local time at Paris from Valencia, Spain, before getting "off track" .

At around 0.30 am , the passengers and crew were evacuated from the plane with a mobile gateway, said Aéroports de Paris (ADP) and a female passenger. According to a spokesman for the firefighters, the plane "landed normally before getting bogged down in the grass while taking its service road."

A French passenger aircraft, Chantal Perrichon said by telephone that the plane had "missed" landing. "Nothing serious, we are in the grass," she said. "The landing occurred normally, the plane braked and then we felt the plane was sliding," testified Mrs. Perrichon. According to her, the captain said it was due to a phenomenon of "aquaplaning."

AirEuropa, the airline founded in 1986 and headquartered in the Balearic Islands, belongs to the Spanish tourist Globalia. AirEuropa, which in 1993 was the first company to break the monopoly held by Iberia in Spain, "has 45 aircrafts with an average of just three years old (that) carry nine million passengers a year."

Source: Le Monde (in French)