KOZHIKODE: The state’s first Tele-ICU, a public-private partnership initiative in healthcare, has been set up at the Government Beach Hospital here. It is expected to enable round-theclock monitoring of critical care patients at the designated Covid-19 hospital by a team of intensivists from the command centre of Meitra Hospital, which is a tertiary hospital. Inaugurating … Read more
New Delhi: The Air India Express crash late on Friday at the Kozhikode international airport could have been due to the aircraft landing 1,000 metres beyond the touchdown point because of inclement weather, aviation experts and officials told ET. Bad weather was clearly one of the key factors for the crash, which killed about 18 … Read more
(This story originally appeared in on Aug 09, 2020) The civil aviation ministry’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) retrieved on Saturday the digital flight data recorder (DFDR), known as a black box, and the cockpit voice recorder from the wreckage of Air India Express Dubai-Kozhikode Flight IX 1344. Eighteen people, including the pilot and co-pilot, … Read more
One may call it good luck, but for two Indian expats it was God who prevented them at the last minute from boarding the Air India Express plane that crashed in Kerala, killing at least 18 people on board. According to India’s Civil Aviation Ministry, the Boeing 737 aircraft on a flight from Dubai to … Read more
NEW DELHI: The Air India Express plane, carrying 190 people from Dubai, on Friday touched down near a taxiway that is around 1,000 metres from the beginning of the runway at the Kozhikode airport before breaking up into two pieces, according to AAI. The pilot of the ill-fated flight — IX-1344 — could not sight … Read more
(This story originally appeared in on Aug 08, 2020) KOZHIKODE: It was the timely intervention of the residents, who rushed to the accident spot at Karipur airport that saved many lives. As many as 173 persons were admitted to various hospitals in Kozhikode and Malappuram. The condition of 15 is reportedly serious. Riyaz from Balussery … Read more