"There are 174 passengers, 10 infants, 2 pilots, 4 cabin crew on board the aircraft," the statement added.
Shailaja asked local residents who joined the rescue effort to go into quarantine as a precautionary measure. "A lot of passengers were bleeding," said Panangad, who escaped without major injuries. Air India Express said its teams also reached Kozhikode to support and assist families of the victims.The wreckage of the plane was resting below a flat hilltop, its nose crashed through a wall. The Air India Express plane that skidded off the runway in Kerala Wednesday had 190 people on board, according to India's Ministry of Civil Aviation.The flight was made up of 174 passengers plus 10 infants, two pilots and four cabin crew, the ministry told CNN. It was raining at the time of the crash, and the plane did not catch fire, according to reports. All efforts being made to help passengers. He said the pilot made a regular announcement before landing, and moments after the plane hit the runway, it nosedived.
It was a Dubai-Kozhikode Air India flight number IX …
"Flight number AXB-1344 on its way from Dubai to Kozhikode with 191 persons on board, overshot the runway in rainy conditions & went down 35 ft. into a slope before breaking up into two pieces," Puri said.Puri added that a formal investigation will be conducted by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau.The Air India Express flight that crashed on landing, Air India Express flight IX 1344, departed Dubai at 2:14 p.m. local time, according to the website FlightAware.comAir India Express is a wholly owned subsidiary of Air India, according to its website. "I still can't comprehend what happened. No fire reported at the time of landing," the statement from the airline read. Unfortunately, 16 people have lost their lives," Puri added "I offer my heartfelt condolences to their next of kin & pray for speedy recovery of the injured. Regular commercial flights have been halted in India because of the coronavirus outbreak.The passenger manifest of the flight, a copy of which was seen by The Associated Press, showed that a large number of passengers were stranded tourists and workers reuniting with their families after months away.Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted that he was "pained by the plane accident in Kozhikode" and that he had spoken to Kerala's top elected official.The worst air disaster in India was on Nov. 12, 1996, when a Saudi Arabian Airlines flight collided midair with a Kazakhastan Airlines Flight near Charki Dadri in Haryana state, killing all 349 on board the two planes.It is a priority for CBC to create a website that is accessible to all Canadians including people with visual, hearing, motor and cognitive challenges.Closed Captioning and Described Video is available for many CBC shows offered onThe plane swayed violently as it approached a hilltop runway soaked by monsoon rain, and moments later the special return flight for Indians stranded abroad by the pandemic skidded off, nosedived and cracked in two, leaving 18 dead and more than 120 injured.Survivors of deadly India crash say plane swayed violentlyAn Air India Express flight, arriving from Dubai, skidded off the runway in heavy rain at Calicut International Airport.At least 17 dead in plane crash in southwestern India In a statement, the airline added that the flight’s four crew members were “confirmed safe.” The country’s civil aviation minister had previously said that 16 people died in the crash.The pilot of the deadly plane crash in Kerala tried to land earlier and then did a turnaround, India's Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri told CNNI. The dead included both pilots of the Air India Express flight, the airline said in a statement, adding that the four cabin crew were safe.The two-year-old Boeing 737-800 flew from Dubai to Kozhikode, also called Calicut, in Kerala. Its end safety area was expanded in 2018 to accommodate wide-body aircraft.The runway end safety area meets United Nations international civil aviation requirements, but the UN agency recommends a buffer that is 150 metres longer than that at Kozhikode airport, according to Harro Ranter, chief executive of the Aviation Safety Network online database.The Press Trust of India news agency reported that the country's aviation regulator had sought an explanation from the director of the Kozhikode airport in 2019 on finding "various critical safety lapses," which included cracks on the runway, water stagnation and excessive rubber deposits.In a tweet, Puri denied the allegations and said the flagged issues were "addressed and rectified.
"The Air India Express plane did not catch fire after skidding off the runway, according to a statement from Air India Express. We will soon share an update in this regard," the statement read.At least 16 people were killed after an Air India Express flight skidded off a runway at India's Kozhikode international airport, according to CV Anand, the Central Industrial Security Force's Inspector General.Another 46 people on board were seriously injured, Anand said, adding that the evacuation of the plane is now over.In total, at least 190 people were on board the plane, which was a repatriation flight transporting Indian nationals during the coronavirus pandemic.At least 11 people, including a pilot, were killed after an Air India Express plane skidded off the runway in Kerala Friday, according to Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri and Commissioner of Police Sujith Das. "He said the pilot made a regular announcement before landing, and moments after the plane hit the runway, it nosedived. "Officials from the aviation regulator said it was too early to tell at this point whether the accident was a result of a technical error or human error.Dubai-based aviation consultant Mark Martin said annual monsoon conditions appeared to be a factor, though it was too early to be certain of the cause. "Two investigation teams of professionals from @airindiain @AAI_Official & AAIB will leave for Kozhikode at 02.00 hrs & 05.00 hrs," Puri added. There were 190 people total on board the flight. "State police have reported 11 deaths," Puri tweeted.