6. Write a newspaper report on an incident of plane crash.
Points : Date, place, time – name of the airlines - casualties - reason behind the crash-
police and forensic investigation.
Answers
FATAL CRASH: Firefighters using foam to douse the fire on Air India Express plane from Dubai after it overshot the runway and crashed while landing at the Mangalore airport on Saturday morning.
Govind Belgaumkar
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Sudipto Mondal
MANGALORE 22 MAY 2010 08:21 IST
UPDATED: 25 MAY 2010 22:06 IST
An Air India Express plane from Dubai overshot the table-top runway at the Mangalore airport on Saturday morning and plunged over a cliff into a wooded valley, killing 158 persons.
There were 160 passengers and six crew members on board Flight IX-812. The passengers included 137 adults, 19 children and 4 infants. Eight passengers survived miraculously.
The plane burst into flames after the crash, which occurred at 6.10 a.m. The captain of the flight, Z. Glusica, a British national of Serbian origin, and his co-pilot H.S. Ahluwalia are among the dead. Nine passengers did not board the flight, according to the manifest.