Air India Express carrying 177 passengers crash lands at Kozhikode airport; pilot feared dead As per local media reports, the pilot of the aircraft has died while the co-pilot is critically injured. The plane, carrying 170 passengers skidded from the runway into the nearby road during landing.
An Air India Express pilot was killed and several passengers injured after the plane from Dubai skidded off the runway at Kerala’s Kozhikode airport during the landing process. The incident took place at 8.15 pm. Confirming the incident, former union minister KJ Alphons tweeted that the front portion of the flight, which was carrying 177 passengers, got split into two and that all passengers have been evacuated. Read in Malayalam
As per eyewitness, there was smoke at the location of the crash and the aircraft seems to have split into two parts. Sources in the DGCA said “the aircraft overshot the runway, fell into a valley and broke up into two pieces. There are some survivors.”
The plane skidded during landing at Karipur Airport in Kozhikode.
As per local media reports, the pilot of the aircraft has died while the co-pilot is critically injured. The plane skidded from the runway into the nearby road as it landed during heavy rainfall, media reports say.
