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AI Plane Crash: How dangerous are tabletop runways?

An Air India Express flight, returning from Dubai under the Vande Bharat mission, crashed at the 'tabletop' Kozhikode airport on Friday evening, leaving at least 17, of the 190 people aboard, dead including pilot and his co-pilot.
According to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, Air India Express AXB1344, a B737 aircraft, with 190 people on board, landed on Runway 10 amid visibility of 2,000 metres in heavy rain, but overshot and nose-dived into the valley, breaking into two pieces.

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