NEW DELHI: Air India Express confirmed on Saturday that 17 were killed after its Boeing 737-800 skidded the runway upon landing at Kozhikode Airport in Kerala, India. According to Air India Express, a subsidiary of Air India, there were 174 adult passengers, 10 infants, two pilots and four cabin crew on board the aircraft, which skidded off a runway at Kozhikode Airport in Kerala and broke into two pieces. The company said the flight IX overshot the runway at Kozhikode Airport at 7:41 p.m. (10:11 p.m. in Manila) on Friday. Abdul Karim, a senior Kerala state police officer, said the dead included one of the pilots of the Air India Express flight. A similar tragedy to Friday’s was narrowly avoided at the same airport a year ago, when an Air India Express flight suffered a tail strike upon landing.

Source: Manila Times August 08, 2020 18:25 UTC