An Air India Express aircraft from Dubai has overshot the runway while landing at the Mangalore airport. The plane has crashed and rescue work is on.

The flight reportedly had 156 passengers, 6 crew members.

According to Airport official Peter Abraham, rescue work is on and high casualty rate is expected. Further details are awaited regarding the incident which occurred at around 6 30 am.

The plane is on fire and smoke was seen coming out of the airport.

LINK TO VIDEO OF LANDING IN MANGALORE

Some of my Trainees fly on that route with Air India Express as Flight Stewards. I hope they weren't on this flight..........................

Really sad to know about this. Saw a video of a rescue team rescuing a 11 year girl who later died as her head was burnt up. So sad to see this 

why is this video in this post

To show how small the landing ground is ... for mangalore airport

Yea... It is a small one... How sad... 

 From the video, the approach path of the runway is pretty straight. Reports suggest tyres burst... wait for NTSB report..
Hope both the Indian Airlines and Indian Air Force stop flying 'Flying Coffins' ( non airworthy planes).

Condolences to the families affected

The TV channels are reporting that the plane landed well after the usual touchdown zone.  It is not clear if the pilot realized that he cannot get the ground speed to bleed down with the amount of runway left and tried to throttle up and take off again.

Ya, rumors are bad.

Some say he exceeded the runway.
Some say the tyre was on fire.
Some say the tyre burst during landing.
Some say the plane crashed 5 minutes before landing.

All the above I heard from TV9 itself. And they were not allowing the survivor to speak to the media.

They (TV9)  may even blame on R/c Radio interference for the crash  



Sanjay

if you notice at 2.11 point of the video, it is a table top runway with a steep descent immediately after the runway ends. Could not have been the best news for the ill fated flight after it overshot. News reports are claiming an ILS approach and a perfect touchdown.....sad to see it end this way after 99.9% of the things went right!! God bless the departed souls and give strength to their family members...

hi guys i have made a recreation of what might have happened on my fs x with an a320 overshoot the mangalore airoport runway. i dont get it how to upload it here as it is in fsr format

and yes this was a sad one condolences to all those affected

subbu

yes!!condolence to the affected families..i fail to understand why the government even built such a stupid runway in the first place?..its to risky..with valleys on either side..it would be any pilots nightmare to land there...is mangalore short of even a few kms of land to build a proper runway or is it just our corrupt politicians as usual?..i wonder...this news saddens me

Flying-g,
even though the runway was elevated on a platform like thing, 8K feet is more than adequate for jets this size and infact much more than adequate. There would be far more challenging strips to land on in India and around than the mangalore strip(Leh, Kathmandu etc)...and the runway cannot be blamed. These were pilots with 10,000 and 3600 flying hours respectively and so should have been no problem with 6KM visibility and an ILS aided approach. It is best to wait for the investigations to determine what actually happened.....

Saw this incident in the morning on TV and am very sad with what has happened. However, taking into account the report where they say that the flight overshot the runway, the pictures show the aircraft to be heavily damaged, I just want to know what is there at the end of the runway at Mangalore airport and does it comply with the international standards. Just a query.

there are two runways at the airport right? was this on the newer one?

I agree, but you know when there is a crime and even the police does not come to rescue/gets delayed. These are the guys who take things into hand and help out. Better than Police?

The newly constructed Runway was under repair. This was the old runway.
Yes, Tabletop runways are no exception for civil aviation. May hilly airports like Shimla, Leh, Kathmandu in nearby areas and those in Latin America, Japan etc are very much practical.

Lets wait for the report..  

List of Passengers and crew

http://in.news.yahoo.com/48/20100522/804/tnl-ia-plane-crash-full-list-of-casualti.html

I am extremely sad and hurt that this has happened.But,don't pilots have a decision height(I got all of this info from microsoft flight simulator X and also,with a perfect ILS approach,nothing should have gone wrong.The investigations will reveal much more but my codolences to the people who lost family and friends on that flight.If the pilots overshot their actual landing spot by 2000 feet,they should have aborted the landing earlier.Either it was instrument failure with the ILS being improper or something on the aircraft or pilot error.But,very sad that this had to happen to highlight the conditions at mangalore.

Table top or not isn't a big deal.  Any time the aircraft overshoots the runway, you are in for uncertain times in terms of fire damage !  Being non-table-top probably helps a little with the nature of injuries and casualties count, that's all. 

The Kozhikode (Calicut) airport in Kerala to which we fly often to is a table top too, sitting between small hills.

From 3rd Nov 1950 to today, Air India have killed 786 Peoples...

The touchdown was 200 feets(abt 90 mtrs)  inside the runway start said Air India Staff to press.

So there is a point to think about the ATC, Who may failed to monitor the plane(and its altitude, slope, speed and distance from runway)...