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The result was keep. Malinaccier (talk) 20:40, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
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This looks to be a hoax. All sources are based on a facebook post by an "assistant professor of journalism"[1] and are accompanied by the same two images, a very grainy (newspaper?) photo of what looks like anything but an airstrip, and a photo of a plane in the "The Hindu" livery. It is not only not the place that crashed (which was a DC47, a two motor plane, not a four motor airplane), but it is a photoshopped version of this image, completely unrelated to the airport or newspaper. Fram (talk) 10:28, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Aviation and Kerala. Fram (talk) 10:28, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
- Keep This airbase was built in 1962 at Chelari , Calicut (now Malappuram district) and was established by the Birla Group.The airport was used to land small aircraft carrying newspapers of The Hindu to the Malabar region and to bring other cargo to the Malabar region. It ceased operations after a 1969 plane crash[2] [3], and after the construction of the Kozhikode Airport, it was closed down. The Madhyamam Daily newspaper, which has three hundreds of thousands of subscribers in Kerala and outside India, quoted a journalist as reporting on the airport and the accident there [4] ~ ~ Spworld2 (talk) 12:28, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
- Keep clearly not a hoax, lots of hits for the "old Chelari airport," but will need a good copy edit if it is kept. SportingFlyer T·C 17:53, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
- Care to list these hits so we can judge them and see if they are a) reliable and b) based on anything but the Hindu Post crash story? Fram (talk) 07:33, 20 August 2024 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 18:19, 26 August 2024 (UTC)
- Comment It's a primary source, but there's this written answer in parliament from the end of 1965:
Will the Minister of Civil Aviation be pleased to state: (a) whether any offer has been received from the Birlas agreeing to place the Chelari Aerodrome near Calicut for providing regular Dakota service; [...] Yes, Sir. This airstrip in its present condition is not suitable for the scheduled operations of I.A.C. However, this offer has been kept in view while surveying for suitable sites for an airport for Calicut.
So it certainly existed. Adam Sampson (talk) 19:23, 26 August 2024 (UTC) - Weak keep, I think. The article linked explains it. It was never an airport; it was a small airstrip. The Facebook post with obviously AI-generated images of what the airstrip "looked like" seems to have caused confusion. This source also confirms the airstrip did exist and is not, in fact, a hoax (apparently contrary to popular belief). There's also this source. It's mentioned here too. So notability of the airstrip appears to have been established, but the article needs to be reworked/renamed based on the sources available and mention the misinformation (as that appears to be the basis for a lot of coverage) around its existence. Someone should take a more in-depth look beyond Google Translate to make sure this is actually the case. C F A 💬 19:34, 26 August 2024 (UTC)
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