An Air India Express flight that was en route from Dubai to Calicut with 184 Passengers crashed and broke into two after overshooting the runway and skidding off of the pathway upon landing.
At least 16 people have been reported to be killed due to the air crash.
Fire tenders and ambulances rushed to the spot and rescue operations have been underway in the southern state of Kerala. Approximately 15 ambulances have taken the injured to the nearby attending hospitals open for trauma service.
There were 174 passengers, including 10 children and 7 crew members of which two were pilots on flight IX – 1344 when it crashed in Calicut, also known as Kozhikode.
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Landing at tabletop runaways is always a difficult task especially when it is raining heavily, but the pilots crash-landed after skidding off of the pathway, saving everyone besides one passenger and the pilot himself.
Earlier in May 2010 more than 150 people were reported dead when an Air India Expressway flight overshot Mangalore airport runaway and crashed from the tabletop pathway.