Air India crashed at kerala Calicut International Airport

When Flight IX-1344 landed at Calicut International Airport in Kerala on Friday, authorities and locals took action to save as many lives as possible. NDTV has reached a shock-by-blow account of what happened in five minutes from sources from the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) protecting the country's airports.
At 7:40 am when the Air India Express Boeing 737 aircraft from Dubai with 190 people slipped off the table-top runway in heavy rain and went down a 35-meter slope, the first call was made by a CISF official, he said.

Sources said that Assistant Sub Inspector Ajit Singh, present at the accident gate number 08, sent the first walkie-talkie message to the CISF control room at 7:40 am, seconds after the plane went down. Crash gates and take-off points at the airport are for emergency responses.

At 7:41 pm, the CISF Control Room called for the Air Traffic Control and CISF Quick Response Team.

Airport fire station was alerted at 7:42 pm.

At 7:43 pm, the CISF called the airport health department.


Air India Express Flight IX-1344 from Dubai closed the runway at Kozhikode in Kerala.




Kozhikode: When Flight IX-1344 landed at the Calicut International Airport in Kerala on Friday, authorities and locals took action to save as many lives as possible. NDTV has reached a shock-by-blow account of what happened in five minutes from sources from the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) protecting the country's airports.
At 7:40 am when the Air India Express Boeing 737 aircraft from Dubai with 190 people slipped off the table-top runway in heavy rain and went down a 35-meter slope, the first call was made by a CISF official, he said.

Sources said that Assistant Sub Inspector Ajit Singh, present at the accident gate number 08, sent the first walkie-talkie message to the CISF control room at 7:40 am, seconds after the plane went down. Crash gates and take-off points at the airport are for emergency responses.

At 7:41 pm, the CISF Control Room called for the Air Traffic Control and CISF Quick Response Team.

Airport fire station was alerted at 7:42 pm.

At 7:43 pm, the CISF called the airport health department.

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Air India Express Boeing 737 broke into two peaks after falling off the runway in Kozhikode, Kerala.

At 7:44 pm, the CISF Control Room contacted the airport's terminal manager, airport director, and made a second call to Airport Health.

At 7:45 am, the CISF Control Room informs the local police and the agency's unit lines.

Within five to seven minutes of the crash, residents of the area also reached the crash gate near which the plane went down.

CISF sources said that given the number of passengers, the deputy commandant of Calicut International Airport allowed a limited number of locals inside the crashed gate to help in the rescue.

Although it was India's worst passenger plane crash since 2010, casualties in Mangaluru were significantly lower when another Air India Express from Dubai overseen the table-top runway and slid down a hill, causing 158 People were killed.

Eighteen people died and more than 150 were injured in Kerala. All survivors were admitted to various hospitals and were also tested for COVID-19, officials have said.

Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri visited the accident site on Saturday.

"It (the plane) was trying to overshoot the runway, which was trying to clearly reveal the prevailing weather conditions at that time," Puri told a news conference.

He said that the authorities succeeded in saving the majority of the passengers as the plane did not catch fire while descending the slope at the end of the runway.