Ministry of Civil Aviation: Update at 14.30 hrs on plane crash at Mangalore Airport
22-May-2010 The ill-fated Air India Express Flight No. 812 involved in accident on 22nd May 2010 was following ILS approach for landing on runway 24 and the pilot reported to ATC that it is established on ILS approach at about 10 miles from touch down.
Landing clearance was given at about 4 miles from touch down. Aircraft touched down the runway 24 slightly beyond the touch down zone, overshot the runway and went in the valley beyond the runway.
The Mangalore airport is a licensed airport and the length of runway 24 is 2450 metres (Approx. 8000 feet) and the runway has a Runway end safety area of 90 metres. This runway was commissioned in 2006 and remained operational since then. ILS was operating normal. No problem was reported by Pilot.
The Airport Authority of India has established control rooms at:
Chennai - tel. no. 044-2256 1365 & 2256 0894,
Mangalore - tel. no. 0824-2220422 and
Delhi - tel. no. 011-2461 0848/2461 0843.
Rescue status at 1430 Hrs
127 bodies recovered,
8 Injured sent to hospital (4minor injuries, 3 major and 1 unhurt)