At least 17 dead as India airliner crashes on landing

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Fri, 2020-08-07 15:45

At least 17 people were killed Friday when a passenger jet ripped in two after it overshot and skidded off the runway upon landing in southern India, officials said.
Dozens of people were injured, 15 of them seriously, after the Air India Express Boeing 737 from Dubai — a coronavirus evacuation flight — plunged down a slope in heavy rain on its second attempt to land in Kozhikode.
Officials said that 191 passengers and crew were on board the plane that plummeted 10 meters (35 feet) off the so-called table-top runway in Kerala state.