Why was Mangalore airport located at Bajpe, a cliff for all practical purposes, and not at Padubidri, where large tracts of flat land were available? That's what Mangalore-based activists seeking ...

A cellphone 'bomb' has been discovered hidden inside a mobile phone by staff screening baggage in an X-ray machine at Mangalore Airport in India. An IndiGo flight from Mangalore to Dubai was ...

Fears have emerged a cellphone 'bomb' found by staff screening baggage at Mangalore Airport in India was a 'dry run' by a 'terror sales rep'. A major security scare ...

An alert has been sounded at Mangalore airport after a bag was found abandoned outside the terminal building on Monday morning with components of low intensity IED. The bag contained all ...

The Mangalore airport is considered to be one of the toughest for pilots thanks to the table-top runway which requires a great amount of precision for pilots to land. Sources told rediff.com that ...

(See Pics: Mangalore Air Crash ... Air Traffic Officials from Mangalore, and those who work at the airport's Fire Departments. Day One of the hearing has revealed other major lapses that continue ...

Back in 2010, an Air India Express aircraft overshot the runway at Mangalore airport, fell into a gorge, caught fire and 158 people lost their lives. And the crash of the airline's plane in ...

The airport is at Bajpe, about 20 km from Mangalore and 350 km from Bangalore. The runway is called "table top" because of the gorges surrounding it. There are two runways at the airport.