Kozhikode plane crash: Shah Rukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar extend condolences to the bereaved

Bollywood artistes including Akshay Kumar, Shah Rukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Randeep Hooda, Esha Gupta, Disha Patani, music composer Salim Merchant, Preity Zinta, Ajay Devgn, Madhur Bhandarkar, and Shraddha Kapoor extended prayers and condoled the demise of passengers who lost their lives in the Air India Express tragedy on Friday evening.

Expressing shock over the tragic incident, actor Akshay Kumar tweeted, “My deepest condolences to those who have lost their loved ones.”

Esha Gupta expressed grief over the demise of the pilot, and tweeted, “Prayers and condolences to the family and loved ones of Cpt Deepak Vasanth Sathe Sir. He wasn’t just a regular trained pilot, he served as the Experimental Test Pilot in the IAF.RIP sir #AirIndiaExpress.”

Ajay Devgn took to Twitter and wrote, “Disturbed by the #AirIndia flight tragedy. My prayers are with all the passengers and crew members onboard and deepest condolences to those who lost their loved ones.”

Preity Zinta extended her condolences to the families of those who lost their lives and tweeted, “Pained to hear about the Air India flight mishap at Kozhikode Airport. Praying for the health and safety of the passengers and the crew on board. My deep condolences to the family and friends of those who have lost their loved ones.”

Shraddha Kapoor also tweeted about how she felt heartbroken to hear about the tragic incident.

At least 16 passengers died and over 120 were injured, including 15 seriously, when a plane coming from Dubai met with an accident at Karipur airport in Kozhikode, Malappuram Superintendent of Police (SP) said on Friday.

Air India Express Dubai- Kozhikode IX-1344 flight, carrying 190 people on board from Dubai under the Vande Bharat Mission, skidded off the runway at Karipur Airport in Kozhikode on Friday.

Check out the tweets

Terrible news! Praying for the safety of all the passengers and crew onboard the #AirIndia Express flight. My deepest condolences to those who have lost their loved ones 🙏🏻

— Akshay Kumar (@akshaykumar) August 7, 2020

My heart goes out to the passengers and crew members onboard the #AirIndia flight. Deepest condolences to the bereaved families who lost their loved ones. Thoughts and prayers...

— Shah Rukh Khan (@iamsrk) August 7, 2020

T 3620 - A terrible tragedy .. Air India crash in Kerala, Kozhikode airport , plane skids off the runway on landing in heavy rain ..
Prayers .. 🙏

— Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) August 7, 2020

Deeply shocked by the tragic crash landing of the #AirIndia aircraft that overshot the runway in Kozhikode.
Prayers for all passengers, pilots & crew on board and at Calicut Airport. Terrible year this🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

— Disha Patani (@DishPatani) August 7, 2020

Pained to hear about the Air India flight mishap at Kozhikode Airport. Praying for the health and safety of the passengers and the crew on board. My deep condolences to the family and friends of those who have lost their loved ones.

— Preity G Zinta (@realpreityzinta) August 7, 2020

Disturbed by the #AirIndia flight tragedy. My prayers are with all the passengers and crew members onboard and deepest condolences to those who lost their loved ones.

— Ajay Devgn (@ajaydevgn) August 7, 2020

Terribly shocking to hear the tragic news of Aircraft crash of the #AirIndia that overshot the runway in Kozhikode which was Flying back from Dubai..
Prayers for the safety of all the passengers and crew members at Calicut airport. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

— Randeep Hooda (@RandeepHooda) August 7, 2020

Deeply saddened to hear about the #AirIndiaExpress tragedy at #Kozhikode
My deepest condolences with the bereaved families and prayers for speedy recovery of passengers & crew members.🙏#calicut @airindiain #AirIndiaExpress #kerala

— Madhur Bhandarkar (@imbhandarkar) August 7, 2020

Very heartbreaking to hear about the #KozhikodeAirCrash. Prayers and healing to the injured passengers. Deepest condolences and strength to those who have lost their loved ones 💔🙏

— Shraddha (@ShraddhaKapoor) August 7, 2020

Oh my God! Not any more.. this year has been so unfortunate for everyone!
I hope there are not too many casualties.

Prayers 🙏 https://t.co/c87jjJihTz

— salim merchant (@salim_merchant) August 7, 2020

(With inputs from Asian News International)