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Mangalore air crash: Black Box found

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Mangalore plane crash: Black Box found
 
Mangalore, May 23: The investigators have found the Black Box of the Air India plane that crashed on landing in Mangalore on Sunday, May 23.

The Black Box was found at the crash site.

The Black Box is plane's digital flight data recorder that helps in facilitating the investigation of an aircraft accident

The investigators now hope to find out what exactly went wrong during the incident.

Earlier, a forensic team had arrived from Hyderabad to conduct DNA tests on those bodies that have charred beyond recognition.

The Air India Boeing 737-800, carrying 160 passengers and a crew of six, overshot a runway and crashed in flames near Mangalore in which 158 were killed. There were only eight survivors from the flight that came in from Dubai.

This is the first major plane crash in India since 2000.

ANI
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User Comments
daphne 19 Jul 2010 09:35 am
Dont give planes to pilots who are to not experts in flying it . Or else give them proper training
pankaj 23 Jun 2010 11:27 am
there is one month gone, where are the black box report???
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