ON FRIDAY AUGUST 07 THIS YEAR, AIR INDIA EXPRESS FLIGHT IX 1344, a Boeing 737 airliner with 190 persons on board that was on a Vande Bharat Mission sponsored by the government to bring back Indian citizens stranded abroad, took off from Dubai for Calicut International Airport, Kozhikode in Kerala, ended up in a disaster at 1941 hours when trying to land at the destination airport. The airliner overshot the runway and fell into a gorge 35 feet deep on account of which, the fuselage broke into two pieces. The captain of the aircraft Deepak Vasant Sathe, the co-pilot Akhilesh Kumar, four members of the cabin crew and 14 passengers perished in the accident. Apart from these fatalities, over 100 passengers were seriously injured. The fact that the wreckage did not catch fire was indeed fortunate as if it had, possibly none would have survived the accident. This was the worst disaster that Air India Express has suffered since the loss of a Boeing 737 aircraft that overshot the runway while landing on the table top runway at Mangaluru airport and fell into a deep gorge killing all 158 on board. The difference was that the accident in 2010 was in the day time and in good weather whereas in the accident at Calicut, the landing was attempted at night time and in extremely adverse weather conditions.
Calicut International Airport, also known as Karipur Airport, is located in Karipur which is in Malappuram district of Kerala. The airport serves South Malabar region of Kozhikode, Malappuram, Palakkad and Wayanad.
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