Air India jet crash investigation begins in Mangalore

Indian aviation officials have started investigating yesterday’s crash of an Air India Express jet that killed 158 people.

The flight from Dubai overshot the runway coming in to land near the southern city of Mangalore and plunged into a steep forested gorge, where it burst into flames.

There were only eight passengers who survived when the aircraft broke up and caught fire. 

Many of the victims were Indian workers returning from jobs in the Persian Gulf. Some had not seen their families for more than a year.

India’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation tries to investigate the cause of the crash, which is the country’s worst civil aviation disaster in 14 years.

Praful Patel, India’s aviation minister says he feels morally responsible and deeply saddened by the accident.

“I have conveyed my deep sense of anguish to the prime minister” he said.

“I also feel personally morally responsible that such a sad and tragic incident has taken place.”

The pilot was a “very experienced” but the short runway overrun area could have contributed to the disaster.

The minister stressed it was “too early” to determine the precise cause of the crash, saying an inquiry had been ordered into the incident and that efforts were being made to retrieve the plane’s digital flight data recorder, or “black box”.

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