The Mangalore plane crash was widely covered by the US media with several television channels airing live images from the site and news papers posting lead stories on their website. Leading televsion channels in the US like CNN, Fox News and newspapers such as the Washington Post, The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal covered the tragic incident extensively with a number of stories. Most televsion news channels flashed the plane crash near the Mangalore airport as Breaking News and were almost giving minute-to-minute updates from India. They also flashed live images from ground zero.
“CNN has confirmed that 160 people are dead after an Air India plane crash in Southern India, this accordig to an Indian official. The plane burst into flames after overshooting the runway. Offials also say six or seven passengers may have survived,” CNN news anchor said. “The plane had departed Dubai and landed in Mangalore, India at 6:30 am local time. Smoke from the plane and the rough terrain in hampering rescue efforts, were told, though 25 to 3o ambulances are on the scene,” the anchor said. The Washington Post carried it as the lead story on its website as the headline read: Plane crash in India kills nearly 160 people, 8 survive.
“Television images showed charred bodies being pulled out of the wreckage as fireflight workers worked to douse the flames. In one case, a childs limp, burned body was extricated from the smoldering plane by a policeman, who carried the child up a hill as other rescuers offered to pull him up,” the daily said. “Scores Feared Dead in Southern India Plane Crash”, read The New York Times headline. “Rescue workers scrambled over the smoldering crash site, looking for more survivors among the charred remains, but there was little hope of finding anyone else alive,” it said.