{"id":367217,"date":"2020-08-10T12:28:12","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T06:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=367217"},"modified":"2020-08-10T14:06:45","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T08:36:45","slug":"kozhikode-plane-crash-need-for-land-to-extend-runway-ran-into-govt-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/kozhikode-plane-crash-need-for-land-to-extend-runway-ran-into-govt-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Kozhikode plane crash: Need for land to extend runway ran into govt wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WHETHER a longer runway at Kozhikode could have averted Friday\u2019s crash may only be known once the investigation is over but the demand to extend it has been a pressing \u2014 and a long-standing one. In the accident, in which 18 people were killedand around 100 injured, the Air India Express plane overshot the tabletop runway and fell 35 feet down a slope, the impact breaking it in two. Way back in 2017, the Airports Authority of India (AAI), which manages the airport, had firmed up plans to extend Kozhikode\u2019s 2750-m runway by 800 m and was awaiting allocation of land by the Kerala government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHETHER a longer runway at Kozhikode could have averted Friday\u2019s crash may only be known once the investigation is over but the demand to extend it has been a pressing \u2014 and a long-standing one. In the accident, in which 18 people were killedand around 100 injured, the Air India Express plane overshot the tabletop runway and fell 35 feet down a slope, the impact breaking it in two. Way back in 2017, the Airports Authority of India (AAI), which manages the airport, had firmed up plans to extend Kozhikode\u2019s 2750-m runway by 800 m and was awaiting allocation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}