UPDATE - Turkey: Sabiha Gokcen Airport works to resume flights

Flights scheduled to resume at 10 pm as efforts continue after plane skids off runway

ADDS POSTPONEMENT OF FLIGHTS; TWEET OF TURKISH AIRLINES’ OFFICIAL; REVISES HEADLINE, DECK

By Zafer Arslan, Izzet Taskiran and Sefa Mutlu

ISTANBUL (AA) - Regular flight operations are resuming at Istanbul's Sabiha Gokcen Airport after they were suspended earlier Tuesday because of an incident with a plane.

Work is underway to continue flights and reopen the runway where a plane skidded off a runway that resulted in no injuries.

Flights were originally planned to be resumed at 8 p.m. local time (0500GMT), but was delayed until 10 p.m. (0700GMT) as efforts continue to clear the plane from the runway.

Turkish Airlines’ Senior Vice President for Media Relations Yahya Ustun said on Twitter that 20 additional flights are scheduled from Istanbul Airport to relieve affected passengers.

A Pegasus Airlines plane skidded off the runway at 9.43 a.m. local time (0643GMT) due to bad weather. All 164 passengers on board were safely evacuated without injury, authorities said.

*Writing by Havva Kara Aydin and Sena Guler

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