An Air India Express Flight on special “Vande Bharat” Mission overrun the runway at Kozhikode and fell into a valley.
In 2010, similar incident occurred in Mangalore airport.
The Tabletop Airport is an airport that is built on top of hilly surfaces or plateau.
The runways in these airports have one or both ends overlooking a drop.
The tabletop airports in India inlucde Shimla and Kullu (Himachal Pradesh), Lengpui (Mizoram), Pakyong (Sikkim), Kozhikode and Kannur (Kerala) and Mangaluru (Karnataka).
The other Tabletop airports outside India include Kathmandu in Nepal and Paro in Bhutan.