At least 18 people died and 16 were severely injured in southern India on Friday after a Boeing-737 overshot a runway known as a 'table-top' in the aviation industry.
NEW DELHI - At least 18 people died and 16 were severely injured in southern India on Friday after a Boeing-737 overshot a runway known as a “table-top” in the aviation industry.
The Air India Express plane, which was repatriating Indians stranded in Dubai due to the coronavirus pandemic, overshot the runway of the Calicut International Airport in heavy rain near the southern city of Kozhikode on Friday. Table-top runways are often constructed by excavating the peaks of hills to create what is known as a table-top.
They are most commonly found in mountainous areas where flat land is scarce, or in low-lying areas like Kozhikode where space is at a premium or there is fear of waterlogging at ground level.The table-top runway at Kozhikode is around 2,700 metres long, shorter than the 4,430 metres runway in the Indian capital New Delhi, though it is long enough for narrowbody aircraft like the Boeing-737 to land.
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