The New York Times: The plane appears to have overshot the hilltop runway where it was landing in one of India’s trickiest airports, in the city of Mangalore, which sits in the Western Ghats, or hills, on India’s southwestern coast.
“The aircraft has broken in pieces,” Gopal Hosu, a senior police official, told NDTV, a private television station. “Members of the rescue team are trying to douse fire and the smoke.”
He said a few people might have survived. Television footage showed rescue teams struggling through smoking and flaming wreckage of the Boeing 737. Television reports said that six or seven people had been taken to hospitals.
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