Air India Express flight crash: CM Pinarayi Vijayan praises ‘fast response’ of locals and officials
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Saturday praised the ‘fast response’ of the local people and officials in being the first to reach the aircraft crash site here to rescue passengers, braving inclement weather and Covid-19 fears, “which made all the difference.”
The Air India Express flight from Dubai with 190 people on board overshot the tabletop runway at the airport here while landing in heavy rains and fell into a valley 35 feet below and broke into two portions on Friday night, killing 18 people and injuring many others. Vijayan, who is at Kozhikode to visit the injured, said in a tweet that the fast response of the local people and the officials made all the difference.
