25 charred bodies recovered from Mangalore Aircraft Mishap Site, 6 survivors identified

The Chairman, Airport Authorities of India has given the status on the Air India Express Aircraft accident at Mangalore Airport today.

The accident occurred today morning (22nd May, 2010) at around 06:05 IST. The Air India Express Flight No. 812 (Boeing 737-800) with registration VT-AXV from Dubai to Mangalore.

There were 166 (137 adults, 19 children, 4 infants and 6 crew) Persons on Board the flight during the mishap. The Weather Conditions was normail during the time of incident with visibility of 6 Kms., Wind Calm and No rain at the time of incident.

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.

The Airports Authority of India has established control rooms at Chennai - tel. no. 044-2256 1365 & 2256 0894, Mangalore - tel. no. 0824-2220422 and Delhi – tel. no. 011-2461 0848/2461 0843.

The authorities have recovered 25 charred bodies, 6 people survived miraculously with 1 discharged from Hospital, 2 minor injuries and 3 seriously injured.

Source : Equity Bulls

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