Early morning today at 6:30 AM, Air India (AI) Boeing 737 crashed at Mangalore Airport. Flight was coming from Dubai to Mangalore and most of the people from Kerala and Southern part of India was boarded on that. This incident left 158 dead out of total 166 people on board. As per the initial reports, it seems that the accident happened because of the shorter run way and AI plane overshoot run way by about 2000 ft. As the Mangalore Airport is situated in the country side of the town and some forest area is near to the Airport, the AI plane went into the forest area and a huge blast happened over there with fire and ashes through out the plane.
Here is the helpline numbers for Mangalore Air India Express Plane Crash,
Mangalore HELPLINE numbers – 0824-2220422, 0824-2010167
Delhi HELPLINE number -011-25603101
Dubai HELPLINE numbers +971 4 2165828 and +971 4 2165829
Some Twitter users shared real time pictures from the incident site which shows the reach of Social Networking and micro-blogging site.
Mangalore Air India Express Plane Crash Pics – Twitter
Thanks @LarkRD @milanmishra for sharing these pictures on Twitpic.