Breaking..... Airliner reportedly overshoots runway; 169 aboard; most feared dead... Air India

[rsmith6621]

Source: MSNBC


This is developing.....

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37286182/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/

[DesertRat]

1. Oh no! This is horrible news

We lost 2 loved ones in an airline crash so I know what those family members will go through...:cry:

[Jennicut]

2. Here is more:

(CNN) -- A plane crash in western India early Saturday has killed more than 160 passengers, an Indian official said.

V.S. Acharya, the home minister of India's Karnataka state, told CNN-IBN he thought about five or or six people had survived the crash.

The Air India plane was carrying 165 passengers and went down around 6:30 a.m. (9 p.m. ET Friday) near the Mangalore airport, CNN-IBN reported, citing an airline spokesman.

The plane burst into flames after overshooting the runway on a flight from Dubai, CNN-IBN reported.

The network said that smoke from the plane and the rugged surrounding terrain were hampering rescue efforts, though about 25 to 30 ambulances were on the scene.http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/05/21/india.plane.crash/?hpt=T1

Very sad news.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Confirmed now per CNN

[applegrove]

4. You would hope that since it was pretty much landed that at least there would be some survivors.

vibes.

[Bluebear]

5. Reporting 45 survivors, hope it is so

[strategery blunder]

6. Updated MSNBC link (per OP) says at least 160 dead

A few were taken to the hospital, but it looks like survivors are very few. :(

[Blue_Tires]

7. jesus...

EIGHT goddamned cable news channels, and none of them know how to do ongoing coverage of breaking news anymore (unless its some kid in a balloon)

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[sonias]

8. Heartbreaking

My condolences to the families of the victims and to India. Terrible, terrible tragedy.

:cry:

[JCMach1]

9. Out of Dubai... our Univ. just ended and I just hope...

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. No apparent problems before the landing

The pilot did not report any problems before landing the plane, the civil aviation ministry said.

The Mangalore airport reported calm wind, no rain and a visibility of 6 km at the time of the crash, the ministry said.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/05/21/india.plane.crash/?hpt=T1

The Russian pilot of the doomed Air India Boeing jet tried to abort landing when the plane overshot runway and crashed Saturday in Mangalore in southern India, said Anup Srivastava, Director of Air India.

http://world.globaltimes.cn/asia-pacific/2010-05/534406.html

Though it had been raining for two days, there was six-kilometre visibility with no wind when the Boeing 737, carrying 160 passengers including 19 children and four infants as well as six crew members attempted to land at 6.05 a.m., the civil aviation ministry said.

There was no distress call from the pilot, a British national of Serbian origin who had received due landing clearance about four miles from touchdown at the hilltop airport at Bajpe, about 20 km from here and 350 km from Karnataka's capital Bangalore.

The aircraft, the ministry said, touched down the 2.45 km Runway 24 'slightly beyond the touch down zone, overshot the runway and went in the valley beyond the runway'.

The Bajpe airport is considered one of the most difficult airports to land and take off from.

Piecing together eyewitness accounts, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Sadananda Gowda said the plane hit an instrument landing system and spun out of control before smashing into a ravine, breaking up and bursting into flames.

http://sify.com/news/158-killed-as-Air-India-plane-plunges-down-cliff-at-Mangalore-news-National-kfwnOcifabi.html

[Kringle]

11. if the pilot would have 'went around', he would be fired

blown approach...
pilot did not want to be fired
.................

buy your ticket.
take your chances

[maddezmom]

13. Plane crashes in India, 159 feared dead, 7 alive

NEW DELHI — An Air India Express plane trying to land in the rain at a tricky hilltop airport in southern India overshot the runway, crashed and burst into flames at dawn Saturday, killing nearly 160 people, officials said. There were seven survivors.

Dense black smoke billowed from the wreckage of the flaming Boeing 737-800 aircraft in a hilly area with thick grass and trees just outside Mangalore's Bajpe airport.

Firefighters sprayed water and foam on the plane — which was traveling from Dubai — as others struggled to find survivors. An Associated Press photo showed two rescuers running up a hill carrying a young girl covered in foam to waiting medics. The child's fate was not immediately known.

The plane was carrying 160 passengers — all Indian — and six crew members, Air India official Anup Srivastava said. The British pilot and Indian co-pilot were killed.

more:http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/world/plane-crashes-in-india-159-feared-dead-7-702699.html

[fleabert]

14. i would guess that most of the people on that plane had not seen their families in a year or more...

on their once a year, or once every two years visit home from working in dubai. so incredibly sad.

[Swede]

15. 8 survivors is the latest on google.

Horrible day for the families of those that perished.