Living tribute: Karipur air crash survivors fund hosp for local rescuers
They have funded a new building for the Nediyiruppu family health centre located near the airport from the compensation they received.
The ill-fated flight from Dubai had overshot the runway at Calicut International Airport and fell into a gorge, breaking into three pieces, on Aug 7, 2020. The crash claimed 21 lives, and 165 passengers were injured, 90 of them seriously. The flight, part of the Vande Bharat repatriation mission, carried 184 passengers and six crew, including two pilots.
Amid heavy rain and Covid-19 containment zone restrictions, people from Palakkapparambu, Mukoodu, Chirayil and Tharayittal in the locality sprang into action, risking their safety to rescue those trapped in the broken fuselage with fuel leaking from both wing tanks. Their swift, selfless efforts helped save many lives.
The survivors and families of victims contributed a part of their compensation for the health centre building at Chirayil Chungam.
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The facility, which cost around Rs 30 lakh, includes an outpatient room, pharmacy, laboratory, patient waiting areas and medicine storage, besides providing for future expansion. The centre is located close to NH hamlet, one of Kerala's largest scheduled caste hamlets.
The MDF Flight Crash 2020 Charity Foundation raised funds for the project and oversaw its construction. Foundation patron and Kondotty MLA T V Ibrahim said chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan would inaugurate the building in Sept.
Opposition leader V D Satheesan will be the chief guest.
"It is a tribute to the residents who saved many lives. I am yet to identify the two persons who pulled me out of the wreckage. I was lying there in a semiconscious state, but I can remember from their language that they were Kondotty natives. It was the peak of the Covid pandemic, and even deaths were being reported. They rushed to the wreckage and completed the evacuation of the injured within two hours.
We owe our lives to them; we wanted to do something for the community, something that will benefit them in the long term," said Noufal, a survivor from Wayanad who suffered serious injuries in the crash.
Foundation general convenor Abdurahman Edakkuni said the Karipur Flight Accident Action Council's efforts to bring the affected on a single platform and provide legal assistance to them helped secure a substantial compensation ranging from Rs 12 lakh to Rs 7.5 crore.
"The plane, broken into three pieces, could have exploded at any moment. Senior officials had warned about this, but the residents, who were the first responders, ignored the risks to rescue the injured," said K Abdul Rahim Chiral, general secretary of the foundation.
Edakkuni said of the 165 injured in the crash, 65 persons have not yet fully recovered and they require follow-up treatment and hospital visits. The survivors have contributed Rs 25,000 to Rs 1 lakh each for the initiative. The foundation stone for the new building was laid on the third anniversary of the crash.
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