Air India Express crashes at 250 km/h into Trichy airport wall, takes off to Dubai

An Air India pilot and the first officer have taken off the airline’s roster after an Air India Express flight bound for Dubai rammed into the perimeter wall at 250 kilometres per hour at Trichy airport, but proceeded to fly out of the city.

According to an NDTV report, none of the 136 passengers and crew aboard the flight were injured, although the aircraft was damaged.

Images that were circulated on social media show a ‘large gash along the jet’s belly and multiple perforations on the engine nacelles and parts of the fuselage’, the report added.

According to a statement made by Air India Express, ''after flight IX 611 from Trichy to Dubai had taken off from Trichy at about 1.30am today, it was reported by local Airport officials at Trichy, that they have observed that [the] aircraft might have come in contact with the airport perimeter wall.''

Although the pilot, D Ganesh Babu reported that everything was fine, there was a decision to divert the jet to Mumbai as a ''precautionary measure.''

In May 2010, an Air India Express Boeing 737-800 from Dubai with 166 people onboard, over ran the runway on landing at Mangalore airport. 158 people were killed.

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