Kozhikode

An interim compensation of ₹10 lakh per passenger should be offered by the airline, according to the Montreal Convention 1999

The AAIB on Thursday said its team, which is probing the accident, is coordinating with personnel from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)

Air India Express said it has retrieved 298 baggage pieces so far from the plane crash site at the Kozhikode airport with the help of the US-based company Kenyon International

Seven passengers were discharged for hospital in Kozhikode after obtaining fitness certificate which took the total passengers so far discharged to 92The airline had said on Sunday the mortal remains of 16 passengers killed in the plane crash have been handed over to their families

Captain Ranganathan had warned that flights landing on runway 10 in tailwind conditions in rain at the Kozhikode airport endanger the lives of people onboard those flightsThe plane, coming from Dubai with 190 people, overshot the runway, went down 35 feet on a slope and broke into two pieces

Over 40 CISF personnel, Quick Response Team and Chief Airport Security Officer reached in minutes and started evacuation with AAI, said a top CISF official

The runway at Kozhikode, where the latest crash took place, doesn’t have an adequate safety mechanism, especially in wet conditions with a tailwind, a DGCA member told top bureaucrats in 2011A ground arrestor system should be installed at table top airports to bring any skidding aircraft to a halt

Saleekha, 24, and her two-year-old daughter Laiba Fathoom changed seats just before their flight took off from DubaiHailing from Malappuram district the mother-daughter duo were traced to a hospital by their neighbour and are currently under home quarantine

In Ramaswamy's words, Kozhikode comes alive like the ordinary town of Oran in Albert Camus' novel 'Plague', also a story about a virus that spreads uncontrollably

Kerala's Kozhikode district, one of the worst hit by rat fever, is staring at supply shortages as demand for the preventive drug shot up, following a few deaths locally