Air India plane accident at Kozhikode leaves 17 dead, over 100 injured

There were 184 passengers including 10 infants, 2 pilots and 4 cabin crew on board the aircraft

Seventeen people were killed and scores injured when an Air India Express flight from Dubai with 190 on board overshot the tabletop runway in Kozhikode airport in Kerala on Friday night while landing in heavy rains and fell into a valley 35 feet below and broke into two portions, officials said.

The pilot-in-command Captain Deepak Sathe and his co-pilot Akhilesh Kumar were among those who died, police and airline officials said. Sathe was a former Wing Commander of the Indian Air Force (IAF) and had served at the force's flight testing establishment.

"Unfortunately the pilots have passed away and we