Major plane crash in Kerala, India - major injuries, 16 deaths so far

[malaise]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-53699857
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An Air India Express plane with 191 people on board has crashed at an airport in the southern state of Kerala, killing at least 16 people, officials say.

The Boeing 737, en route from Dubai, skidded off the runway in rain and broke in two after landing at Calicut airport, aviation officials said.

The flight was repatriating Indians stranded by the coronavirus crisis.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he was "pained by the plane accident".

MK Raghavan, a lawmaker from Calicut, told the BBC at least 16 people died in the crash.

Most people on board the Boeing 737 jet have been evacuated, with dozens of them taken to hospital with injuries, some serious, authorities said.

"We have at least 89 people, many of them with serious injuries, admitted at different Kozhikode hospitals. The ambulances are still coming in," a senior police official, Sujith Das, told AFP news agency.
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The plane was carrying Indian citizens home from Dubai as a result of Covid-19

[CentralMass]

1. :-(

[Nevilledog]

2. OMG..... How tragic.

[Initech]

3. Sure what's one more disaster to add to the 2020 pile?

[malaise]

4. Well it's connected - one of the flights returning citizens

to home countries because of the virus.

[Initech]

5. Yup and I'm sure the explosion in Beirut is also somehow linked.

Nothing makes sense right now and all of it is horrible.

[malaise]

6. That one looks like a government fuck up

Welders started a fire - they didn't know ammonium nitrate was being stored there.

I once believed that national security was about us citizens. It's about the interests of the wealthy and their tools.

[Initech]

7. No arguments here!