Air India Plane With 180 Passengers Skids Off Runway and Cracks in Half

Source: New York Times

The plane had been returning from Dubai when it skidded off a rain-soaked airport runway in the state of Kerala in southern India. Images from Indian media showed the fuselage had split.

An Indian airliner with more than 180 passengers skidded off a wet runway in southern India Friday night and split in half, causing many injuries, Indian media reported.

The Air India Express flight was returning from Dubai to Kozhikode, a city in India’s Kerala state.

Indian media showed injured passengers lying in the hallways of a hospital and, according to news reports, one of the pilots died and another was injured. It has been raining heavily in that area for the past week and aviation experts said it appeared that the plane slid off the runway after having landed.

Indian media showed images of the jetliner’s fuselage cracked in half but there appeared to be no fire. Rescue crews were dousing the plane with water as rain continued to pelt down.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/07/world/asia/air-india-plane-crash.html