Indian jet skids off rain-soaked runway

Flight 127 from the southern city of Bangalore overshot the runway at Mumbai's international airport and got stranded in soft ground, spokesman Jitender Bhargava said.

The 333 passengers were all safe and the Boeing 747-400 plane later continued on as scheduled en route to Frankfurt and Chicago.

"After 90 minutes the aircraft was towed back to the runway and the airport is back to normal. Flights are taking off and landing," Bhargava said.

He attributed the incident to the unprecedented monsoon rains that have been lashing parts of India since the beginning of this week, leaving more than 900 people dead.