Breaking News: Pilot Dies As Flight Skids Off Runway

An Air India Express flight from Dubai carrying 170 people Friday skidded off the runway in Kozhikode airport while landing. Several people are reportedly injured.

Eyewitness report that there was smoke at the location of the crash and the aircraft seems to have split into two parts. Sources in the DGCA said “the aircraft overshot the runway, fell into a valley and broke up into two pieces. There are some survivors.”

As per local media reports, the pilot of the aircraft has died while the co-pilot is critically injured. The plane skidded from the runway into the nearby road as it landed during heavy rainfall, media reports say.