Hundreds of families living on the fringes of the Calicut International Airport at Karipur are upset over the refusal of the Airports Authority of India (AAI) to give a no-objection certificate (NOC) for construction activities.
An NOC from the AAI is mandatory for any construction within the specific limits of the airport. As much as 90% of the area under Kondotty Municipality falls under the red-zone category for which the AAI’s permission is a must for any building construction.
Particularly affected are people living on the eastern side of the airport, where the table-top runway ends and where an Air India Express 737-800 flight overshot the runway and plunged into a depth of 35 feet on the night of August 7, 2020, killing 21 people, including the pilots, and injuring many passengers.
