List of passengers

Following is the list of passengers who travelled on the Air India Express plane that crashed Saturday in Mangalore city.
1. Harshini Poonja
2. Aaron Joel Fernandes
3. Niha Imthiaz
4. Bhaskaran T.V.
5. Komalavally Alinkeel
6. Narayana Kanthav Rao
7. Vani Narayana Rao
8. Vaishnavi Narayana Rao
9. Mohammad Ishaque Rafique Ahmed
10 Hasanabba Abubakkar
11. Hiba Azeena (child)
12. Mushina (child)
13. Haifa Hasha (infant)
14. Joyanrichard Saldanha
15. Ummer Farook Mohammed
16. Shahida Nushrathar
17 Zeshan Abdul Rehman (child)
18. Kannur Zulekha Banu
19. Nazeema Muhammad Ashraf
20.Satyanarayana Ballakuraya
21. Sujatha Rao
22. Fathimamehzan Shafqat
23.Rashaad Shafqatmahmood (infant)
24. Khader Ammangod Mohammed Shafy
25. Suhaib Mohammed Naseer (child)
26. Bibi Sara (child)
27. Nabeeha Mohammed Nasir (child)
28. Mohammad Asraf
29. Maimoona Asraf
30. Ashaz Abdulla (child)
31. Ayesha Afsheen (child)
32.Plaviashakunthala Lobo
33. Venishanikola Lobo
34. Vishalfloid Lobo (child)
35. Abdullah K.M.
36. Rosly Shibu
37. Godwina Thomas (child)
38. Gloria Thomas (child)
39. Bhagali Prabhakar
40. Kammadam Kunhabdulla
41. Shashikanth Punja
42. Manirekha Punja
43. Abdulbarr Damudi (child)
44. Mahesh Shetty
45. Mohamed Naser
46. Anwar Sadiq
47. Hassan Kutty
48. JoelPratap DSouza
49. Arunkumar Shetty
50. Abdul Samad
51. Prasadand Manjrekar
52. Krishnan Koolikunnu
53. Mullachery Balakrishnan
54. Shanthi Olivera
55. Chethana Mukeshkumar
56. Ahmednaushad Abbu
57. Rajan Pulikodan
58. Jayaprakasha Devadiga
59. Jayaram Kotian
60. Chitra Jayaram
61. Rahul Jayaram (child)
62. Prabhavati Karkera
63. Ashitha Bolar
64. Akshay Bolar
65. Suresh Kunder
66. Soman Narayani
67. Pradeep G.K.
68. Kallingalabullah
69. Thalangara Ebrahimkhaleel
70. Naziya Afarin
71. Mohammed Abaanruknuddin (child)
72. MohammedRafi Beliyapura
73. Abdullah Mohammed
74. Ibrahim Saheb
75. Sameena Saheb
76. Issam Ibrahim
77. Rida Ibrahim (child)
78. Perumbalamohammed
79. Shivakumar Nagaraj
80. Meenu Gupta
81. Shetty K.K.
82. Gangadharan Nair
83. Prabathkumar Attavar
84.Sathisha Shetty
85. Irshad Ahmed
86. Neha Parveen
87. Affan Ahmed (infant)
88. Sameerbeerran Moideen
89. Abdunnazir Avinja
90. Riju John
91. Sabrina Nasrinhuq
92. Mahammooda Abdulla Kanyana
93. Althafahmed Moolana
94. Lokeshasadananda Belchada
95. Hameed Pookayam
96. Mayankutty K.P.
97. Vipin Kattoor
98. Kishorekumar Kudpapoojary
99. Chandukutty Nair K.
100. NM Bharatham
101. Abdulazeez Anchikatta
102. Umashan Vijayan
103. Cavin Sequuiera
104. Reshmasanthosh Rai
105. Nalandshaunsantosh Rai (child)
106. Vihasantosh Rai (infant)
107. Vamana Prabhu
108. Ganesh Prabhu
109. Qazi Abdulsalam
110. Qazizulekah Khuddus
111. Jackson Periera
112. Mahammed Ismail
113. Naveen Kumar
114. Sanjaykumar Mahabal
115. Mahendra Kodkany
116. Indumathi Nayak
117. Vijesh Kovval
118. Ramakrishna Nayak
119. Ajesh Mottathil
120. Navid Ibrahim
121. Ignatius DSouza
122. Sukumara Kuzhiyamkottuchal
123. Abdul Basheer KM
124. Mohiddin Farasusman
125. Mahim Mohammedpalli
126. Mohammedashraf KA
127. Mohamed Usman
128. Naveenwalter Fernandes
129. Saritaphilomena Dsouza
130. Ullas Dsilva
131. Mannapadupuashraf Abdul
132. Safdharali Sheik
133. Mahesh Shetty
134. Abdulharish Koppalamhouse
135. Abdul Jebran
136. Parambathkunhi Krishnan
137. Prabhakaran Pachikaran
138. Nekkareibrahim Ismail
139. Melwynkiran Menezes
140. Siddeeque Choorisulaiman
141. Putturismail Abdulla
142. Somashekhar Potyalsrinivasa
143. Lokesh Narayanan
144. Lolitta Dias
145. Lilly Dias
146. Praveena Sundar
147. Hilda Douza
148. Pradeep Deepanivas
149. Denis Saldanha
150. Ashton Saldanha (child)
151. Manthur Hassainar
152. Rama Satish
153. Mohammed Basheer
154. Aboobacker Siddeeq
155. Mohammed Usman
156. Shaileshrao Brahmavara
157. Mohammed Ziad
158. Sameena Abdul Karim
159. Zainab Mohammedziad (child)
160. Mohammed Subairzaid (child)

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158 killed in India plane crash

New Delhi - At least 158 people were killed Saturday when Air India Express flight 812 from Dubai overshot the runway while landing in the western Indian city of Mangalore, officials said.

The Boeing 737-800 with 160 passengers and six crew members overshot the tricky hilltop runway and crashed into a forested gorge, airport officials and eyewitnesses said.

The aircraft broke into pieces and caught fire. Eight passengers, who managed to jump out, survived.

'Four of them suffered major injuries, three had minor injuries and one miraculously escaped unhurt,' federal Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said at a briefing in Mangalore.

Patel said more than 125 bodies had been recovered and it was hoped the rest would be retrieved by sundown.

An Air India official confirmed that 158 passengers and crew, including the two pilots, were dead.

'Many of the bodies are badly burned and charred,' Patel said. 'It will takes some time to identify them and hand them over to their kith and kin.'

Patel also said it was too early to say what caused the accident. He said the entire wreckage of the plane had been found and the black box was also expected to be recovered.

Patel said the two-and-a-half year-old aircraft had no history of defects or malfunction and the weather conditions were relatively normal when it landed.

Though it had been raining in the region since Thursday, there was no rain and the runway was dry when the aircraft landed, Patel said.

The commander of the aircraft, Z Glusica - a British national of Serbian origin - had 10,200 hours of flying experience and had flown planes at least 19 times to the Mangalore airport, the minister said.

Patel said a wing of the aircraft appeared to have hit an instrument at the end of the runway after which it veered off and fell 200 to 300 feet into the adjoining valley.

The airport on the outskirts of Mangalore is located in a hilly area. Landings and take-offs from its 2,450-metre runway have little overshoot area and are considered difficult, according to aviation experts.

Patel acknowledged that there was very little spill-over space along the runway - about 900 metres of sandy surface - but pointed out that the runway had been operational without any mishap since 2006.

India's Directorate General of Civil Aviation had ordered an enquiry into the accident and Air India had constituted a team of experts to establish the circumstances behind the accident, Patel said.

Indian media speculated that the crash could have been caused by a pilot error or a burst tyre.

'The aircraft touched down the runway 24 slightly beyond the touch down zone, overshot the runway and went in the valley beyond the runway,' a federal Civil Aviation Ministry release said.

All the passengers were Indian nationals, Air India's director of personnel, Anup Srivastava, said at a press briefing. The passengers comprised 105 men, 36 women and 19 children, four of them infants.

Firefighters took over four hours to douse the blazing aircraft.

Mangled parts of the plane were spread over a two-kilometre-radius of forested hillocks.

Fifteen teams of rescue workers were engaged for hours searching for survivors and victims.

All eight survivors had jumped from the aircraft immediately after it went off the runway. They escaped through gaping holes and broken windows as the aircraft cracked into pieces.

'A crack appeared on the plane's body where I was seated,' Ummer Farooq told the NDTV news channel from his hospital bed. 'I immediately jumped out. ... As I fled from the aircraft, flames engulfed it.'

Most of the crash victims belonged to the southern states of Kerala and Karnataka and were workers returning home from the Gulf region for a summer vacation
.

This is the first major aircraft accident in India since an Alliance Air Boeing-737 crashed into a residential area near the eastern city of Patna on July 17, 2000, killing 61 people.

Air India Express is a low-cost wing of the state-owned Air India.

India's worst aviation accident ever was November 12, 1996, when 349 people were killed in a mid-air collision of a Saudi Arabian Airlines
plane and a Kazakhastan Airlines plane over northern India.

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Muslims most backward in education: NSSO survey

New Delhi: After Sachar Committee, now National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO), a central government body, has confirmed that India’s largest religious minority is the most backward community on the educational front. Muslims’ ratio in higher education is lower than even Scheduled Tribes (STs), considered most backward.

Attached to the Union Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, NSSO, in its report titled “Education in India, 2007-08: Participation and Expenditure”, says that of 100 Muslims in the education system, just 10 are enrolled in high school and above. Similar ratio for STs is 11, Scheduled Castes (SCs) 12 and Other Backward Classes (OBCs) 14.

“This is not revealing. It is an open secret that Muslims are the most backward community educationally in the country,” says Arshad Ajmal of Lok Parishad NGO active in education and political issues.

The report also says that high education among urban Muslims is lower than their counterparts in rural areas. This despite the fact that urban areas have better educational facilities. According to the NSSO report published on May 19, just seven out of 100 urban Muslims in the education system were enrolled in high school or above as compared to 12 in rural areas.

“This is because poor Muslims in urban areas do not have easy access to education as they have in rural areas. The landless poor – laborers, rickshaw pullers etc – are hardly able to make their both ends, leave alone education of their children,” Ajmal adds.

He also offers solution. “Reservation for Muslims in education is must. Ranganath Mishra Commission report should be implemented.”

Christians lead all communities – religious and social – in pursing education, followed by Sikhs and OBCs.

It is most likely this fresh report highlighting the plight of the Muslim community will give fresh blood to the demand of reservation for the community in education and job.

The report is based on the household survey on participation and expenditure in education conducted in its 64th round. The field work of the nationwide survey was carried out during July 2007 to June 2008. The survey covered a random sample of 445960 persons, from 63318 rural households and 37263 urban households spread over 7953 villages and 4682 urban blocks, covering the entire geographical area of the country.

Link: Education in India, 2007-08: Participation and Expenditure: full report.

source:twocircles

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