Kozhikode Airport crash victims received interim compensation, says Air India

Air India Chief Managing Director Rajiv Bansal on Thursday said that the injured and the 21 passengers who died in the Air India Express flight that crash-landed at the Kozhikode Airport on August 7 had received the interim compensation, as per an ANI report. 

Bansal further informed that insurance agencies had reimbursed the families of the deceased and injured involved in the crash-landing of the Air India flight at Kozhikode airport. 

Bansal also said that Air India received its first tranche of interim compensation of the aircraft that was damaged.

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The Air India CMD said 21 people died including the two pilots in the crash. He also added that almost everybody involved in the fatal crash was discharged from the hospital. He said that two passengers involved in the crash landing were still receiving treatment and added that one passenger involved in the flight was undergoing physiotherapy while another was going plastic surgery. 

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The Air India Express flight IX 1344, carrying 190 people, overshot the runway of the Kozhikode airport on August 7. While landing, the aircraft skidded on the runway and nosedived 35-feet gorge, breaking into several pieces. 21 people died in the fatal crash. The reason behind the crash was attributed to heavy-rains.