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At about 7:40 p.m. local time yesterday (7th), an Air India Express airliner crashed while landing at Calicut International Airport in Kerala, India.

Local authorities said 17 of the 191 passengers were killed, including pilots. At the end of the rescue operation, around 120 people were injured, both large and small.

The exact details of the accident are not yet known, but local media reported that the airliner slipped off the runway in heavy rain.

(SBS Department of New Media/Photo = AFP, Yonhap News)