Families of all Kozhikode plane crash victims paid compensation: Air India

The insurance agency has paid interim compensation to all the injured and families of the deceased in the Kozhikode plane crash, Air India CMD Rajiv Bansal said. Air India received the first tranche of interim compensation for the lost aircraft, he added. On August 7, an Air India Express flight overshot the runway at the Kozhikode airport, killing 21 people.

"21 passengers, including two pilots, died. Almost everybody discharged from hospital, 2 still receiving some treatment; 1 undergoing physiotherapy and another undergoing plastic surgery," Air India CMD Rajiv Bansal noted while briefing on the Kozhikode plane crash.

Last month, the Supreme Court issued a notice to the aviation ministry along with the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on a plea seeking to install a fail-safe mechanism to prevent aircraft from overshooting tabletop runways at airports like Mangaluru and Kozhikode.

The plea sought that the aviation ministry install Engineered Material Arresting System (EMAS) that will help stop airplanes from overshooting runways as did in case of the Dubai-Kozhikode flight.