Kathmandu: India on Thursday rushed experts and an Air Force transport plane with equipment to Nepal to remove a Turkish Airliner that skidded off the runway here yesterday, forcing closure of the country's only international airport for two days, stranding thousands of passengers.

Turkish Airlines and the Nepalese government had yesterday requested the Indian Air Force to send its aircraft to remove the Turkish Airliner Airbus A-330, for resumption of international flights in and out of the country's capital.