Mangalore Air Crash

• Blog: I walked out of the broken plane, says Mangalore crash survivor

  I just want to reach out to the relatives of the missing passengers of the Malaysia Airlines plane and tell them - you need to keep praying.

• Mangalore air crash memorial demolished

  To its horror and disbelief, the Air India found that its memorial to the crash victims of Mangalore flight IX812 was destroyed, late on Monday night. The demolition was such, that not even a single panel was spared. The police suspect, miscreants used stones to break the granite structure. Air India does not yet know who is behind it, or even the ...

• 'We don't have enough runway left,' said Mangalore co-pilot

  Four months after the Mangalore crash, it has now been established that 158 lives were lost due to pilot error. An analysis of audio on the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) shows that the Air India Express Boeing 737 was incorrectly aligned to the runway while attempting to land.  The plane, the audio recording establishes, was too high to make a ...

• Mangalore crash: Hearing reveals huge safety lapses

  Early on May 22, an Air India flight from Dubai to Mangalore crashed; 158 people were killed.  The pilot had overshot the runway at Mangalore.(Read: 158 killed in crash, eight survivors)Now emerging - a huge point of concern - that the Air Traffic Control tower got to work just two minutes before the pilot touched down. (See Pics: Mangalore Ai...

• Mangalore air crash: Memorial now, money later

  Holding her young daughter in her arms, Helen Menezes watched as others prayed for the 158 people who died in Air India crash at Mangalore two months ago.

• Retired Air Marshal to head Mangalore crash inquiry

  Air Marshal (Retd) Bhushan Nilkanth Gokhale, a fighter pilot and a former vice-chief of IAF, will head the Court of Inquiry (CoI) into the Mangalore air crash set up by the government on Thursday.Making the announcement nearly two weeks after the crash in which 158 people were killed, an official spokesperson said here the CoI has been asked to com...

• Independent mechanism to probe air mishaps: Praful Patel

  The Civil Aviation Safety Advisory Council (CASAC) set up by the government within a week of the Mangalore crash has met for the first time today to discuss measures to strengthen safety. The advisory council has members from across the aviation industry and is spearheaded by the Union Civil Aviation Minsiter Praful Patel. More powers will now be g...

• Mangalore crash: Govt to set up safety advisory council

  The Civil Aviation Minister chaired a high-level meeting of senior officials on Tuesday to review aviation safety.

• Mangalore air crash: Grief replaces wedding celebrations

  Kasargod district in Kerala, which reported 49 deaths in air crash, is filled with heart rending stories. A family that was preparing for a wedding now mourns the death of two of its son, who died in the Mangalore air crash."When we were close to airport, I saw smoke billowing in the area. A taxi driver told me the aircraft had skidded on the runwa...

• Mangalore air crash: Kasargode mourns its dead

  This is the house from where Rosli left for Dubai along with her two minor daughters Godwina and Gloria to spend holidays with her husband. People here say the children were eager to return home and narrate their vacation stories to their classmates here. Shocked neighbors still cannot believe that they will never see Rosli and her children. A mont...

• Mangalore air crash: Agonising wait for kin of victims

  It's a nightmare to find out your family was in air crash and perhaps what makes it worse is the agonising wait for the bodies and the painful identification process when many have only an earring or shoes or a watch strap to go by. But some officials at work in the hospitals are doing that extra bit to make the process a little better.A family rus...

• Air India crash in Mangalore: Data box found

  The pilots of the Air India plane IX 812 which crashed in Mangalore on Saturday may have tried to take off again, after overshooting the landing zone by around 2,000 feet, sources have told NDTV.This comes after the investigators recovered the plane's throttle from the crash site in forward position.Investigators have also recovered two out of the ...

• The miracle of life: Close shave for Gulf businessman

  Mayan Kutti with all smiles, and why not, after all from all the 166 people on board the Air India flight that crashed on Saturday, he was only one of the eight to survive with just little bandage on his head. (Read: Miraculous escape for eight) "I have travelled so many times on this route, but this time just when we were about to land, I fel...

• Mangalore crash: Airhostess predicted 'quick death'

  All the six crew members aboard the Air India flight which crashed in Mangalore on Saturday morning died. Among them were airhostesses, who had just started living their dreams."I hate goodbyes..but I guess it's time," was the haunting message left by Sujata Survase on Orkut a day before she left on the ill-fated flight. Sujata had returned to work...

• Heroes of Mangalore air crash

  Even in the midst of such a dark tragedy, the positive aspects of the human spirit can shine through. People living near the crash site flocked to help after the air crash, even though they will be tormented by the images for a long time to come. NDTV reporter met one such family in Kenjur village near the crash site. Chandrashekhar and his family ...