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Kozhikode- CISF played vital role in rescue ops after Air India flight made crash landing

Kozhikode: CISF played vital role in rescue ops after flight made crash landing

12:14 am August 9, 2020

New Delhi: On Friday evening when an Air India Express flight IX-1344 from Dubai to Calicut carrying 184 passengers and 06 crew members, made crash landing at Calicut International Airport (Kozhikode) and went off the runway CISF personnel acted as the first responder and later played key role in rescue operations. 18 deaths have been […]

Kozhikode plane crash: Co-pilot’s family mourns loss, pregnant wife unaware of his death

11:48 pm August 8, 2020

Mathura: Panic gripped Tulsiram Sharma’s family in Govind Nagar here when they learnt about a plane crash at the Kozhikode airport in Kerala on Friday night. Sharma’s son, Akhilesh Sharma, 32, was the co-pilot of an Air India Express aircraft that was bringing back to Kozhikode Indians from Dubai as part of the government’s Vande Bharat mission. On Saturday morning, a call from a relative, who had […]

AI Express flight overshot runway, no fire during landing: Aviation Ministry

11:58 pm August 7, 2020

New Delhi: The Air India Express flight from Dubai, with 190 people onboard, that met an accident at the Kozhikode airport Friday evening overshot the runway, but no fire was reported during its landing, the Civil Aviation Ministry said. “Air India Express flight IX 1344 operated by B737 aircraft from Dubai to Calicut overshot runway at Kozhikode at 1941 hrs tonight. No fire reported at the time of […]

Puducherry, Karnataka CMs express shock over plane crash

At least 3 killed after Air India plane skids during landing at Kozhikode airport

9:41 pm August 7, 2020

Kozhikode: An Air India Express plane carrying 184 passengers including 10 infants, which was coming from Dubai, skidded while landing at Karipur Airport in Kozhikode on Friday evening. Kondotty Police said that the Dubai-Kozhokode flight X1344, a Boeing 737, skidded during landing at Karipur airport at around 7.45 pm today. New Agency Reuters cited a […]

Pilgrims pray on peak day of Hajj in shadow of coronavirus

2:16 pm July 30, 2020

Dubai: Masked pilgrims arrived Thursday at Mount Arafat, a desert hill near Islam’s holiest site, to pray and repent on the most important day of the hajj, the annual pilgrimage in Mecca in Saudi Arabia. The global coronavirus pandemic has cast a shadow over every aspect of this year’s pilgrimage, which last year drew 2.5 […]