AI plane touched down 1 km away from runway threshold
(WorldNews India)

New Delhi: The ill-fated Air India Express flight IX-1344 which crash-landed at Kozhikode (Calicut) airport in Kerala on Friday evening killing 18 people on board had touched down near taxiway ‘C’ which is approximately a distance of 1000 m from the beginning of runway 10 which has a total length of 2,700 m, the Airports Authority of India (AAI) said. Citing information from the Air Traffic Control (ATC), AAI also said the pilot “attempted first a landing on runway 28 but could not sight the runway and subsequently carried out a missed approach (known popularly as go-around) and requested for runway 10,” adding that at the time of the (second attempt at) landing, it...