An Air India Express flight with 190 people on board skidded off a runway, leaving more than a dozen people dead.
The Associated Press reports that the landing, which split the aircraft in two, took place in heavy rain in southern India and left at least 16 people dead and 123 injured.
The NDTV news channel said the plane flew from Dubai to Kozhikode, also called Calicut, in the state of Kerala in southern India. Amitabh Kant, who heads the government's planning commission, said the runway is on a hilltop with deep gorges on either side, making it difficult to land. Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep S. Puri said in a statement that the flight “overshot the runway in rainy conditions and went down” the slope, breaking into two pieces upon impact.The airport’s runway end safety area was expanded in 2018 to accommodate wide-body aircraft.
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