An Air India Express flight with 191 passengers and crew skidded off the tabletop runway and fell into a 50 feet valley breaking into two portions while landing on Friday evening, police sources said.
Many people have been rushed to the nearby hospitals,the condition of some of them is said to be serious.
The flight landed at the airport at around 7.40 pm.
A DGCA statement said the flight IX 1344 operated by B737 Dubai-Calicut aircraft with 191 people on board met with the mishap.
After landing at Runway 10, the flight continued running to end of the runway and fell down in the valley and broke into two portions, the statement said.