Seconds before take-off from Surat on Thursday evening, a SpiceJet flight with 140 passengers on board thudded to a stop, it had hit a buffalo that had strolled on to the runway through a gap in the airport's boundary wall. The collision killed the buffalo and caused potentially multi-million dollar damage to the Boeing 737 aircraft.The Civil Aviation Ministry has ordered separate inquiries by the Director General of Civil Aviation and the Airports Authority of India.