«We believe there are two people dead, and 35 injured, we are still in the middle of the rescue effort.»
At least 16 people were killed and dozens injured when an Air India Express passenger plane repatriating Indians stranded by the COVID-19 pandemic overshot the runway in heavy rain near the southern city of Kozhikode, officials said. The Boeing-737 flight from Dubai to Calicut airport was carrying 190 passengers and crew, the civil aviation ministry said in a statement. Among them were 10 infants. Television footage showed rescue workers moving around the wreckage in pouring rain. The aircraft lay split into at least two chunks after the plane’s fuselage sheared apart as it fell into a valley 30 feet below, authorities said. «Unfortunately,16 people have lost their lives. I offer my condolences to their next of kin and pray for speedy recovery of the injured,» Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said in a tweet.
