Air India Crash: Dubai - Kozhikode Air India flight splits in two on Karipur runway.

An Air India Flight from Dubai to Kozhikode in Kerala crashed at the Calicut International Airport also referred to as the Karipur airport while landing on Friday night. 

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It's unclear right now how many people were on board,  several people are injured in the incident. The injured are taken to hospitals near the airport, which is in Malappuram. The incident happened around 7.40 pm on Friday. The aircraft seems to own overshot the tabletop runway and plunged 30 feet down. This resulted aircraft splitting with serious damage to the cockpit area.

Currently, it's raining heavily in Kozhikode. Usually flights are diverted to the nearby airports if the weather is bad at the Karipur airport, since it is a tabletop airport. However, it wasn't done on Friday. 

A member of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) who is at the airport told Malayalam news channels that there have been no serious injuries and everybody has been shifted to hospitals. Many ambulances had been rushed to the spot. 

Update: 15 people to be found dead including pilot.