The Central Industrial Safety Pressure (CISF) on Sunday requested its personnel who took half within the Air India Categorical airplane crash rescue operation to go for quarantine after two of the injured passengers examined optimistic for coronavirus even because the black field of the flight was despatched to Delhi.
A minimum of 18 passengers together with each the pilots have been killed after the flight carrying 190 individuals on board together with 10 kids skidded whereas touchdown on the Kozhikkode worldwide airport on Friday, a significant air accident after the 2010 Mangaluru tragedy.
“Now we have requested all CISF personnel who took half within the rescue mission to enter quarantine after the well being ministry knowledgeable that two injured individuals had examined optimistic. Earlier native individuals who have been the primary to hold out rescue work have been additionally requested to go for quarantine,” mentioned a senior airport official.
The CISF had praised the service of its personnel throughout the accident and mentioned they are going to be rewarded correctly.
Civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri who visited the accident website on Saturday introduced Rs 10 lakh interim reduction to the households of the deceased and requested all to chorus from speculating over the reason for the accident. Many theories have been floating round like extra rubber deposits on runway, water stagnation and aqua-planning and overshooting might have resulted within the crash. There have been additionally stories that the airport didn’t heed a number of the warnings of the Directorate Common of Civil Aviation (DGCA).
A minimum of 50 injured passengers have been discharged from numerous hospitals on Sunday and 28 are nonetheless in hospital. Out of this, 15 obtained critical accidents, mentioned the Kozhikkode district administration.