Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia has expressed “deep anguish” to Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan over the state government’s delay in providing the required land for having a runway end safety area at Calicut airport, which witnessed a fatal plane crash in 2020.
Scindia also said that if the land is not provided to the Airports Authority of India (AAI), then the civil aviation ministry will be left with no choice but to proceed with action to curtail the runway length for safe aircraft operations from August.
The airport at Calicut, also known as Kozhikode, is operated by AAI.
