Death Toll Rises After Air India Express 737-800 Overshoots Runway

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今日の英語の習慣化の題材は、Air IndiaのCalicut空港でのOvershoot 事故の記事です。

Aug.7 19:41 (Local Time) の出来事です。

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Casualty figures were reportedly rising the evening of Aug. 7 after an Air India Express Boeing 737-800, en route from Dubai to Calicut, overshot the runway while on landing at Kozhikode-Calicut International Airport (CCJ) at 7:41 pm local time, according to media reports. 

The Times of India said that India’s civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri tweeted that 16 had died and that the aircraft ‘overshot the runway in rainy conditions & went down 35 ft. into a slope before breaking up into two pieces.’