Air plane crash at Calicut airport, Kerala, India
An Air India Boeing 737- 800 passenger plane
coming from Dubai skidded off the Calicut international airport in Kerala,
India today evening killing about twenty people till writing this note.
More casualties are feared in this disaster.
The plane had 191 passengers including 42 children and six crew. The rescue
operations are in full swing now and the injured are being shifted to hospitals
nearby.
The air plane said to have over shoot the runway and skidded off the
runway of the table top airport into a gorge having a depth of around 35
feet.
The airport and its surrounding areas
have been experiencing very heavy rain for the whole day today. Due to the impact of the crash, the plane has
broken into two pieces killing the pilot Capt. D.V.Sathe instantly and injuring
the co-pilot seriously.
The flight was not a regular one and was ferrying Indian nationalities from UAE to India due to Covid-19 under Vande Bharat mission.
Poor visibility due to incessant rain may have been the
reason for the disaster. In a similar plane crash, a Boeing 737 – 800 plane had
crashed overshooting the runway of the table top type Mangalore airport killing
158 people during May 2010.
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