Tilted plane at Canada's Halifax airport — Agencies

Agencies TORONTO/OSLO

Just hours after a Boeing 737 caught fire on landing in South Korea's Muan airport, resulting in the death of 179 people on board, an Air Canada flight made a scary landing at Halifax airport and a KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flight veered off the runway at Oslo Torp Sandefjord Airport in Norway following an emergency landing on Saturday.

Purported videos, claimed to be of the incident, showed wings of the Air Canada aircraft scraping the runway and causing a fire. The aircraft in question reportedly belongs to PAL Airlines which was operating Air Canada flight AC2259 between NewFoundland  and Halifax. The plane experienced landing gear failure, reports said.

"The plane started to sit at about a 20-degree angle to the left, and we heard what almost sounded like a crash sound as the wing of the plane began skidding along the pavement," a passenger was quoted as saying by Canada's CBC News. 

The aircraft's capacity is estimated to be around 80 passengers, with most seats reportedly occupied, however, the exact number of passengers remains unconfirmed. A report  from Oslo said a Boeing 737-800, en route to Amsterdam from Oslo Airport, experienced a hydraulic failure shortly after takeoff. The crew opted to divert to Sandefjord Airport, about 110 km from Oslo.

The plane touched down safely at Sandefjord Airport but lost control during the landing rollout, according to Aviation24.be. The aircraft skidded off the runway and came to a halt in soft grass near a taxiway. The plane carried 182 people, including crew, none of whom sustained injuries. Both  the incidents are being probed.