Air India Express plane with 190 onboard that crashed on Friday evening while attempting landing amid heavy rains at Kerala's Kozhikode airport has so far claimed 18 lives including both the pilots. Here's an account of the first 5 minutes after flight crash-landed at the Kozhikode airport.
A day after the crash of an Air India Express plane at Kozhikode's tabletop runway during landing has brought the focus on some of India's other airports which are more risk-prone when compared to others and internationally prescribed parameters of landing and runway safety technologies.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation will be contacting Boeing to get to the bottom of any defects in the aircraft which crashed at the Kozhikode airport day before yesterday. Anil Kumar, DG, DGCA, has said that aeronautics major Boeing will be contacted to examine the aircraft's original equipment and to check for any defects.
Air India Express plane, that crash-landed on Friday evening at Kerala's Kozhikode airport when it was trying to land on the table-top runaway, has claimed 18 lives so far including its pilot and co-pilot. The plane was carrying 190 onboard. A loot at how survivors recall horrific account.
The bodies of the pilot and co-pilot of the Air India Express flight that crashed while attempting to land at the Karipur airport here, were handedover to their families on Saturday.
Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri, who visited the Air India Express plane crash site in Kerala's Kozhikode, has said that the aircraft had enough fuel to divert the landing somewhere else.
Captain Deepak Sathe, pilot of the Air India Express flight that crashed on Friday evening while attempting landing at Kerala's Kozhikode airport amid heavy rains, had planned for a surprise visit on mother's birthday who is in her 80s.
Air India plane crash: It has now come to light that as landing gear of the plane did not deploy, pilot Sathe made three rounds of the airport so that fuel tanks were empty. This created a massive difference as the plane didn't catch fire after it crashed. Sathe died in the crash, but his actions may have saved lives of more than 100 people onboard the plane.
Aviation regulator DGCA had issued a show-cause notice to the director of the Kozhikode airport on July 11 last year after it found "various critical safety lapses" in different places, including the runway and the apron, officials said on Saturday.
Deepak Sathe, pilot of the ill-fated Air India Express flight that crashed killing 18 onboard including the co-pilot, was a very experienced Captain on Boeing 737. A look at who was Sathe and a brief about his flying career.
Speaking about the recent air crash incident in Kozhikode, Airports Authority of India (AAI), Chairman, Arvind Singh informed that jumbo jets used to land at Karipur Airport after several issues were fixed in 2019.
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In both instances, Air India Express pilots had overshot tabletop runways. Also, the flights were coming from Dubai.
A heartbreaking selfie of a family surfaced on the internet. The selfie was clicked by a man with his wife and daughter.
In one of the most devastating flight accidents in recent times, an Air India Express flight from Dubai overshot the runway at Kerala's Kozhikode airport on Friday, claiming the lives of at least 19 people and injuring over 100. Track latest updates.
The Indian Consulate in Dubai will remain open on Saturday to help those who need assistance to travel to Kerala and provide information about the crash of the Air India Express flight that skidded off a hilltop runway and split in two while landing in heavy rain at an airport in Kozhikode, killing at least 17 people.
Minister of State for Minister of External Affairs V Muraleedharan on August 07 expressed his grieved after Air India plane crashed in Kozhikode and said due to hard landing aircraft skidded off beyond runway.
A heartbreaking selfie of a family surfaced on the internet. The selfie was clicked by a man with his wife and daughter.
Global flight tracker website indicated that the Air India Express plane that skidded on the runway at Kerala's Kozhikode tried to land at least twice at the tabletop airport. Flightradar24, a Swedish firm that shows real-time commercial flight tracking information on a map, indicated that the Boeing 737 NG that came from Dubai with 190 people on board tried to land twice.
Air India plane crash: The runway off which Air India Express flight IX-1344 skidded is situated at a unique and precarious place. The runway at Karipur Airport is situated on a 'tabletop' mountain.
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