Air India Express Flight 812 was a scheduled international flight from Dubai to Mangalore On 22 May 2010, the Boeing 737-800 passenger jet operating the flight, crashed on landing at Mangalore because the captain had continued in an unstabilised approach due to fatigue despite three calls from the first officer to initiate a “go-around”, failure to follow the instruction resulted in the aircraft overshooting the runway, falling down a hillside, and bursting into flames. Of the 160 passengers and six crew members on board, 158 were killed (all crew members and 152 passengers); only eight survived. This was the first fatal accident involving Air India Express.
