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.

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 ...

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 ...

On 7 August 2020, an Air India Express Boeing 737-800 (IX1344) overshot the tabletop runway during landing and crashed in a nearby valley In a disastrous turn of events, an Air India Express ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Boeing 737, repatriating Indians stranded in Dubai due to the coronavirus pandemic, overshot the table-top runway and crashed while landing at Calicut International Airport in the southern ...

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 ...

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 ...