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At least 14 killed, 123 injured in airplane crashlanding in India
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The death toll in Friday evening’s aircraft crashlanding accident in southern India has risen to 14, with 123 others injured, a local police officer has confirmed.
Private news agency Asian News International (ANI) quoted Malappuram’s superintendent of police as saying that “14 dead, 123 injured and 15 seriously injured in Kozhikode plane crash incident.”
Earlier, a top official of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) had said that at least six persons, including two pilots, had died in the mishap.
The cause of the accident has not been announced yet, but media reports said that the pilots tried to land the aircraft amid heavy rains and it skidded off on the wet runway.
The mishap took place at 19:41 hours (Indian Standard Time) when the Air India plane, a Boeing 737, with around 195 people, including 189 passengers and six crew members onboard, skidded off the runway at Kozhikode Airport. The plane broke into two parts.