Mangalore : The members of the Pravasi Sangam, a Kerala-based organization of foreign-returned Indians focusing on overseas affairs, staged a protest fast against discrepancies in disbursing compensation to the kin of the victims of the Mangalore plane crash of 2010 in front Air India’s office in Mangalore on Feb 15 Wednesday The members will hold […]

Panaji:  The front tyres of a Chennai-bound Air India flight burst after landing at Goa’s Dabolim airport Tuesday morning. All 105 passengers were safe, officials said. Airport officials said flight AI 976, flying from Kuwait to Chennai via Goa, met with the accident around 8.30 a.m. The aircraft was still on the runway. Air India […]

Kochi: A division bench of 2 judges (Ramachandran and Gopinathan) overturned the single judge verdict on Thursday(Aug.25) and stayed the order of paying Rs.75lakh for every dead person, in the Air India Being crash(May 22,2010) in Bajpe jungles. 158 persons died in this crash. The stay order came in response to Air India’s own appeal […]

Kochi: The Kerala High Court on Wednesday directed Air India to pay interim compensation of Rs.75 lakh each to the kin of 158 passengers who died in an air crash in Mangalore last year. The direction was made by Justice P.R. Ramachandran Menon following a petition by the family of Mohammed Rafi, who died in […]

Kasaragod: There is a flickering hope that some of the bereaved families, which have demanded equal compensation for deaths of their relatives who died in air crash in May 22 2010 at Bajpe forest, many secure the compensation amounts they were asking fir since an year now. Kasaragod MLA, N.A. Nellikkunnu, met Vayalar Ravi, Union […]

New Delhi: Turbulence continues for Air India passengers on Day 3 of the pilots strike on Friday. Only 10 of the 850 pilots reported to work and 30 flights were cancelled since Friday morning. Barring 10 heads of department, all Air India pilots, including the executives are part of the strike, taking the number of […]

Mangalore : H. D. Nanavati , Chief of Mulla and Mulla said that decisions regarding the distribution of compensations are being taken according to the law. Speaking at the press mett held at Hotel Ocean Peral, he said that the Air India and its representatives understand the grief of the victims’ families, but they are […]

Mangalore: May 22, 2010 witnessed one of the bloodiest air accident in the history of Indian Aviation. India’s budget airline AIR INDIA EXPRESS IX 812, bound to Kozhikode in Kerala from Dubai overshot the runway at Mangalore International airport killing 168 people on board of which 58 were from Kerala, said Kerala MP Karunakaran. He […]

Mangalore : It’s a happy today at Kenjaru International Air Terminal  for CEO M.R. Vasudeva and his air staff members, as an Air India Express flight no. 9/820 became the first to land at the brand new Kenjaru Terminal in Mangalore suburbs on Monday at 6 am. The new airport building and office under Director […]

Mangalore : Air India was leaving no stone unturned to pay the final compensation according to the international agreement, having paid Rs 10 lakhs as interim compensation already to all families of 158 dead in the Boeing air crash as on May 22. A meeting was arranged today (July 27) with AI legal advisors for […]