By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent,
Mangalore: There were 166 people (137 adults, 19 children, 4 infants and 6 crew members) on board the Air India Express Boeing 737-800 flight from Dubai that overshot a runway at the Mangalore airport at 6:10. a.m today. In total 158 people have been killed while 8 survived.
The survivors include: Joel Prathap D’Souza (KMC hospital, described as a “young man around 25-30 years old”), Mohammad Umer Farooqi, (KMC hospita), Sabrina Haq, a medical intern from at the Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore (KMC hospital). Three other survivors, Mayan Kutty, from Kasargod, Pradeep G.K., from Tannirbhavi, Mangalore, and Krishnan Kollikunnu, have been admitted to the SCS Hospital, Mangalore, Abdulla Puttur Ismail is admitted to K.S. Hegde Hospital, Derlakatte, Mangalore Taluk and Mohammad Usman at Unity Hospital.
The Airports Authority of India has established control rooms at:
Chennai – tel. no. 044-2256 1365 & 2256 0894
Mangalore – tel. no. 0824-2220422, 0824 2010167
Delhi – tel. no. 011-2461 0848/2461 0843
Some other numbers
Mumbai 022 2279616
Dubai airport 00971- 42165828/29
According to Chairman, Airport Authorities of India, the aircraft was following ILS Approach for landing on runway 24 and the pilot reported to ATC that it is established on ILS approach at about 10 miles from touch down. Landing clearance was given at about 4 miles from touch down. Aircraft touched down the runway 24 slightly beyond the touch down zone, overshot the runway and went in the valley beyond the runway.
The Mangalore airport is a licensed airport and the length of runway 24 is 2450 metres (approx. 8000 feet) and the runway has a Runway end safety area of 90 metres. This runway was commissioned in 2006 and remained operational since then. ILS was operating normal. No problem was reported by pilot.