AIR CRASH ON TABLE TOP RUNWAY

There are five table top runways in India. Those are Mangalore, Kozhikode, Tengpui, Shimla and Kullu.
Two of those have already had major crashes. As per the latest available reports 18 people have lost lives and over hundred people are hospitalised,  with some of them having serious injuries when an Air India Boeing 737 Flight 1344 from Dubai skidded off the runway after touchdown. In another crash in 2010 in Mangalore an Air India Express Boeing plane overshot the table top runway took the lives of 158 people. According to the airport authorities concerned, all DGCA recommendations are compiled with. A Hindu newspaper report says a Spice Jet had gone off the same runway with 75 on board in 2017. Consequently the final incident report recommended additional safety measures but was later rejected on cost reasons. To quote another report, Sri Mohan Ranganathan, aviation safety analyst wrote to DGCA in 2011 about this Kozhikode runway that 'It is a dangerous situation, especially in wet conditions'.

In similar runways in US, they have installed system called arresting beds which prevents the plane from going off the edge. It is also known that Air Force bases are maintaining a ground arrestor system at table top airports to avoid skidding. Whatever it may be, the authorities concerned must take adequate measures to avoid such air crashes in future.

KV George
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