In Kozhikode crash 17 of 19 dead identified.The aircraft, with 190 people on board, was attempting to land in bad weather when it shot the runway around 7.40 pm yesterday and split into three after nosediving into a valley 35 feet below after the mishap . The pilot-in-command Captain Deepak Sathe and his co-pilot Akhilesh Kumar were among those killed onboard the Dubai-Calicut Air India Express aircraft carrying passengers as part of the Vande Bharat Mission.At least 100 people were left injured in the incident with atleast 15 in critical condition.In a statement, the DGCA said, “Visibility was 2,000 metres and there was heavy rain.” It said the flight, IX-1344, shot runway 10. Rescue operations, which went on till 11 pm, are over. Exact reason is expected from flight data recorder in black box which already found.
