Air India plane from Dubai crash lands in south India

Indian news reports said an Air India Express flight with 191 passengers on board skidded off a runway while landing Friday in heavy rain in southern India, and some injured people were hospitalized.

The plane coming in from Dubai overshot the runway as it landed in the southern city of Kozhikode and several passengers were injured, an airline spokesman and television channels said.

The fuselage split into two, local television networks said.

At least two people feared dead, 35 injured, a police official said.

Rajiv Jain, a spokesman for the Civil Aviation Ministry, confirmed the accident and said the plane broke into two pieces. He said details about injuries were not immediately known.

The news reports said the plane didn’t catch fire. They said passengers were evacuated from the Boeing aircraft.

Al Arabiya