Air Crash  

Captain Deepak Sathe, pilot of the Air India Express flight who died along with 17 others after the plane crashed at Kerala's Kozhikode airport, had survived an air crash in the early 1990s when he was in the Air Force and was hospitalised for six months, his cousin said.

Deceased co-pilot Akhilesh Kumar of the ill-fated Air India Express flight that crash-landed in Calicut was to become a father in the next 15-17 days

The runway at the Calicut international airport is a tabletop runway, making it difficult for the pilots to land. Incidentally, the this airport is no stranger to accidents

The civil aviation secretary added that around 30-35 flights of SpiceJet are likely to be affected on Thursday. SpiceJet has the largest number of the controversial Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft.

'It is with the deepest regret and a collective broken heart that we confirm our chairman, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, was among those to have tragically lost their lives on Saturday evening when a helicopter carrying him and four other people crashed outside King Power Stadium. None of the five people on board survived,' Leicester City FC said in a statement