About 158 people died from the crash of Air India Express in southern India and 8 people survived the plane crash.
The plane just burst into flames after overshooting a table-top runway and plunging into the forest below according to Reuters. The plane was crashed after landing in Southern India particularly in the city of Mangalore on a flight from Dubai. There were even television images that showed the flames coming from the plane, which was eventually crashed after it landed. Many rescue workers and volunteers run their way to the area of incident and tried to look if there were any survivors. Luckily, there were eight people who survived. Some of these survivors had burn injuries.
One survivor stated that he managed to jump out of the plane that was caught on fire before landing. As the plane went through the trees, that’s the time he went out and jump off.
There were 166 people on board of the plane including six crew members, and even children. It is a sad fact for India, that most of these passengers were Indians. The crash was an accident as officials say. V.P. Agarwal, chairman of Air India Express also stated “As per our information available, there was no distress signal from the pilot, that means between pilot and air traffic communication, there was no indication of any problem reported by him,”
The main focus is on rescue operations as stated by Air India official Anup Srivastasva. The plane crash is the first major accident for India in a decade.
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