Mangalore Survivor

• Blog: Blog: I walked out of the broken plane, says Mangalore crash survivor

  I just want to reach out to the relatives of the missing passengers of the Malaysia Airlines plane and tell them - you need to keep praying.

• Air India plane crashes in Mangalore; 159 dead, 7 survivors

  In a major disaster, an Air India Express flight from Dubai to Mangalore crashed while landing at the Mangalore airport at 6:05 am on Saturday. According to officials, the Air Traffic Control (ATC) saw the plane approaching normally and enter the runway but suddenly veered away after skidding and one side of it hit the Instrument Landing Sy...

• Co-pilot was a kind soul, recall neighbours in Mumbai

  "It was just a couple of days ago that we were in talks with a girl's family who wished to offer her hand in marriage to Papu Aluwalia," mourned Narinder Singh Sahani, family friend and neighbour of Harmider Singh Aluwalia, the deceased co-pilot of the Air India Express flight that crashed on Saturday morning in Mangalore.Sahani described the 38 ye...

• Killed in crash, this Mumbai airhostess was to marry soon

  Thirty year-old Sujata Survase, a Mumbai-based airhostess aboard the Air India Boeing 737 Express aircraft from Dubai that overshot the runway at Mangalore airport while landing, succumbed to injuries.Survase was a resident of the MHADA colony at Four Bungalows and previously worked at a call centre. One of her neighbours, Sarita, said, "Sujata wan...

• He jumped nine feet, survived with just a scratch

  "Allah ho Akbar Rullah ho Akbar" is the prayer Abdullah Puttur Ismail (37) uttered 33 times after he found realised that he had survived a tragedy that will never be forgotten in India's aviation history. Ismail, a passenger on board IX-812 that crashed while landing at the Bajpe Airport in Mangalore on Saturday morning, expected a few close relati...

• Mangalore crash: US sends team of investigators to India

  At the request of Indian government, the US has sent a team of top investigators to India to assist authorities there to probe the Mangalore plane crash.

• Mangalore air crash: Miraculous escape for eight

  Eight persons miraculously survived the crash after the two-and-a-half-year-old Boeing 737-800 with an experienced Serbian pilot in command missed the touchdown area at the 8,000-feet 'table top' runway at Mangalore's Bajpe airport."The pilot suddenly braked after landing. The aircraft hit something, burst into flames and fell apart. Four-five of u...

• Mangalore air crash: Survivor list

  In a major disaster, an Air India Express flight from Dubai to Mangalore crashed while landing at the Mangalore airport at 6:05 am on Saturday.

• Many feared killed, few survivors: Karnataka CM

  Chief Minister of Karnataka S Yeddyurappa has said he expects the casualties in the Dubai-Mangalore air crash to be high, but has confirmed that some survivors have been taken to hospital. Speaking to NDTV, Yeddyurappa said 160 people are feared dead in the air crash. The Chief Minister and the state home minister are flying in to Mangalore. &...

• Air India plane crashes in Mangalore; 158 dead, 8 survivors

  Hundred fifty-eight persons were killed in India's worst air disaster in over a decade. The Air India Express flight, a plane of Air India's low budget carrier was flying from Dubai to Mangalore with 160 passengers and six crew members on board. (First pics of crash)On landing the plane overshot the runway, went down a ravine and burst into flames...