Fifteen years ago, on May 22, Mangalore witnessed one of India’s worst air crashes. Air India Express Flight IX-812 from ...

159 people have been killed after an Air India Express aircraft from Dubai, overshot the runway while landing at the Mangalore airport. 125 bodies have been recovered so far, seven people survived ...

The Air India Express air crash investigation team appears unaware of which of the two runways in the Mangalore airport is runway 24, the one on which the ill-fated Boeing 737 aircraft had crash ...

Mangalore airport’s tabletop runway amid picturesque surroundings hides the dangers within, in a sense resembling the city itself. From a laidback coastal town, known for its anjal and pomfret fries, ...

NEW DELHI: The runway length of Mangalore airport, which saw a major air crash a week ago that claimed 158 lives, will be increased from the present 8,000 feet to 9,000 ft to include a larger ...

It is for this reason that the directorate general of civil aviation has prescribed additional training for pilots landing and taking off from table-top runways such as those in Mangalore and to some ...

The Mangalore airport's location, on a plateau surrounded by hills, made it difficult for the firefighters to reach the crash site, officials said. Aviation experts said Bajpe's "tabletop" runway ...

Airline officials have blamed "tailwind and a wet runway" for the incident. In May 2010, 158 people died when an Air India Express flight overshot the Mangalore airport runway and crashed.

Mangaluru, May 20: Despite 15 years passing since the tragic Mangaluru plane crash that claimed 158 lives, the mandatory ...

The Karnataka Government has been urged to acquire land for extending the runway of Mangalore International Airport. In a letter to Karnataka Infrastructure Development Minister Santosh Lad ...