NEW DELHI, India – As many as 160 people were feared dead after an Air India plane arriving from Dubai crashed Saturday as it overshot a runway while trying to land in southern India.Television images showed dense black smoke billowing from the aircraft surrounded by flames just outside the Mangalore city airport in a hilly area with thick grass and trees.Firefighters sprayed water on the plane as rescue work
er struggled to find survivors. One firefighter ran up a hill with an injured child in his arms.Officials in the state of Karnataka said of the 169 people believed on board, only six or seven might have survived."This is a major calamity," Karnataka Home Minister V.S. Acharya told CNN-IBN TV. - The aircraft overshot the runway, hit a fence and went beyond the boundary wall of the airport, according to the Press Trust of India.
- The crash could be the deadliest in India since the November 1996 midair collision between a Saudi airliner and a Kazakh cargo plane near New Delhi that killed 349 people.
- The airport's location, on a plateau surrounded by hills, made it difficult for the firefighters to reach the scene Saturday, officials said.
- Pre-monsoon rains over the past two days caused low visibility in the area, officials said.
- Mangalore airport is about 19 miles (30 kilometers) away from Mangalore city.
Source: AP
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