Boeing to provide technical assistance to probe....
New Delhi, May 22 Indian plan crash Boeing announced Saturday that it
was sending a team to India to provide technical assistance to
investigators after a Boeing 737 Air India Express crashed in Mangalore
killing 158 people. ‘Boeing is sending a team to provide technical
assistance to the investigation at the invitation of the Indian
authorities,’ Boeing said in a statement.
The aircraft flown by Air India Express from Dubai to Mangalore that
crashed was a Boeing 737. It carried 166 people, including 19 children
and four infants. The Boeing 737-800 aircraft entered into service in
1998. It has a capacity for 162 passengers in a two class layout, or 189
in one class.Saturday’s crash took place in the airport at Bajpe, about
30 km from Mangalore, a hilly area that is considered one of the most
difficult airports to take off and land.The civil aviation ministry said
the ‘aircraft touched down on runway 24 slightly beyond the touch down
zone, overshot the runway and went in the valley beyond the runway’.
- IANS
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