Rear tyre of AI Express flight punctured while landing

MALAPPURAM: One of the tyres of an Air India Express Dubai-Kozhikode-Mangalore flight got punctured after it landed at the Karippur International airport last night, airport sources said.

There was rain when the IX-384 flight landed and one of the rear tyres got punctured, Air India Express sources said.

The flight was carrying 169 passengers and 63 of them alighted here and the rest were sent in another Air India Express flight after an hour, they said.