Indian airliner tragedy (update): At least 17 dead; More than 100 injured - 15 serious


The Air India Express flight that skidded off a runway while landing at the airport in Kozhikode, Kerala state, India, Saturday (Aug 8, 2020). The special evacuation flight bringing people home to India who had been trapped abroad because of the coronavirus skidded off the runway and split in two while landing in heavy rain killing more than a dozen people and injuring dozens more. - AP

KOZHIKODE (Kerala), Aug 8 (AFP): At least 17 people were killed Friday when a passenger jet was ripped in two after it overshot and skidded off the runway upon landing in southern India, officials said.

More than 100 others were injured, 15 of them seriously, after the Air India Express Boeing 737 from Dubai -- a coronavirus evacuation flight -- plunged off the runway down an embankment in heavy rain in Kozhikode.

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