NEW DELHI, Aug 8 (Reuters) - At least 18 people died and 16 were severely injured in southern India on Friday after a Boeing-737 overshot a runway known as a "table-top" in the aviation industry.

Located in Kathmandu's Bagmati, TIA has a 'tabletop' runway. That and other factors like high altitude, weather changes and Himalayan terrain are the reasons why Tribhuvan airport is the site of ...

About tabletop runway Tabletop runways are generally constructed on a hilly or an elevated terrain. Such airports are built in such a way that there is a trench or valley at the front and back of ...

Indian authorities ignored at least two recommendations in the past decade to install a safety system on so-called table top runways, one of which an Air India Express jet overshot Friday ...

Rain smeared the windows. Air India Express Flight 1344 was midair, roaring through a thunderstorm toward the city of Kozhikode’s tabletop runway, which has a sudden drop-off at its end and was ...

Another Air India Express 737-800 suffered this ‘table-top’ overrun at Mangalore in 2010 While the table-top runway at Mangalore was dry, and winds calm, the aircraft had landed long and the ...

Shimla, the capital of Himachal Pradesh, has a very pronounced tabletop runway with deep gorges on both sides that is suitable only for light aircraft. Kozhikode and Mangalore, on the west coast ...

Mangaluru International Airport, which has a tabletop runway, simulated an air crash on Tuesday as part of the ‘Mangalam – Tabletop Exercise 2024’ to find and address any weaknesses in the ...

However, this is not the first time that an aircraft has crashed on a Tabletop runway. In the year 2010, another Air India Express aircraft crashed at the Mangaluru airport which also had a ...

This was after the Air India Express from Dubai overran the tabletop runway at Mangaluru airport and crashed down the hill at its far end in May 2010, claiming 158 lives. Incidentally ...

The Lengpui airport in Mizoram, which is with the state government, also has a tabletop runway. State-owned AAI operates 137 aerodromes, including the ones through joint ventures. A senior Air ...

The tabletop runway of the Calicut airport may have been a hindrance to its expansion plans, but it has once again proved a blessing for air passengers when the Cochin International Airport was ...