AI Express crash: Teen recalls horror of flight going down

AI Express crash: Teen recalls horror of flight going down

There were violent jolts, loud screams and a strong thud after which 14-year old Hanna Sadik closed her eyes. When she opened them again, she was horrified by what she saw.

"There was nothing in front of us except a gaping black hole. The aircraft split in two and the part of the plane right in front of us was gone. It was terrifying," Hanna told Khaleej Time over the phone from her hospital bed in Kozhikode, Kerala.

She and her three-member family - her mother Najiya Sabik, eight-year-old sister Hijza and four-year-old brother Bilal - miraculously escaped when the Air India Express flight crashed while landing at Kozhikode International Airport on Friday. The family had travelled to Dubai on