Rescue status at 10 a.m. aircraft accident at Mangalore Airport
22-May-2010 Following status has been received from Chairman, Airport Authorities of India on the Aircraft accident at Mangalore Airport today
"Date : 22nd May, 2010
Time : 0605 IST
Aircraft Details : Air India Express Flight No. 812
Registration : VT-AXV
Total Persons on Board : 166 (137 adults, 19 children, 4 infants and 6 crew)
Weather Conditions : Visibility 6 Kms., Wind Calm, No rain at the time
of incident.
Details : The aircraft 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 Airports 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 1000 Hrs
25 charred bodies recovered,
1 discharged from Hospital,
2 minor injuries,
3 seriously injured."