An Air India Express flight from Dubai with 173 on board crashed before landing at Kenjar, near the newly built runway in Magalore at 6:30 this morning, and caught fire, a senior police official said. The flight IX-892, operated by a Boeing 737-800 with Russian pilot and co-pilot Ahliwalia had 173 passengers, four infants and six crew members on board. six people injured have been rescued from illfated plane and over 160 are feared dead. "The crash happened while landing and the aircraft immediately caught fire," State Home Minister V S Acharya told. "On landing this mishap has happened and nearly about 160 people are involved. A handful might have survived.... this is a bigger calamity," Acharya said.
The entire area around Kenjar village near the crash site and the airport has been cordoned off. An eyewitness said the bodies of passengers were strewn everywhere near Kenjar Gudda, a hillock. Aviation sources in Delhi said the aircraft overshot the runway, hit the fence and went beyond the boundary wall of the airport. Mangalore is however experencing bad weather and heavy rains. AI has opened helpline centre at Delhi Airport and the two numbers are 011-2565-6196 and 011-2560-3101 and Dubai Help Line numbers are 0097142165828, 29, 00971503780114 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi condole loss of lives in Air India Express flight crash in Mangalore. The Prime Minister announces a compensation of Rs 2 lakh each for the families of those killed in Mangalore air crash and Rs 50,000 for the injured from the PM's National Relief Fund.
The entire area around Kenjar village near the crash site and the airport has been cordoned off. An eyewitness said the bodies of passengers were strewn everywhere near Kenjar Gudda, a hillock. Aviation sources in Delhi said the aircraft overshot the runway, hit the fence and went beyond the boundary wall of the airport. Mangalore is however experencing bad weather and heavy rains. AI has opened helpline centre at Delhi Airport and the two numbers are 011-2565-6196 and 011-2560-3101 and Dubai Help Line numbers are 0097142165828, 29, 00971503780114 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi condole loss of lives in Air India Express flight crash in Mangalore. The Prime Minister announces a compensation of Rs 2 lakh each for the families of those killed in Mangalore air crash and Rs 50,000 for the injured from the PM's National Relief Fund.
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