Air India Mangalore Crash

• Fire service dept woefully ill-prepared in Karnataka, says govt's auditor

  Despite the Mangalore air crash and the fire mishap at Carlton Towers here, the Department of Karnataka State Fire and Emergency Services does not have separate standard operating procedures (SOPs) to deal with different emergencies, a CAG report has revealed.

• Mangalore crash: Supreme Court notice on Rs.75 lakh compensation

  Mangalore crash: Supreme Court notice on Rs.75 lakh compensation

• Air India plane crashes in Mangalore; 159 dead, 7 survivors

  In a major disaster, an Air India Express flight from Dubai to Mangalore crashed while landing at the Mangalore airport at 6:05 am on Saturday. According to officials, the Air Traffic Control (ATC) saw the plane approaching normally and enter the runway but suddenly veered away after skidding and one side of it hit the Instrument Landing Sy...

• Air India on Mangalore air crash

  Air India Express regrets to announce that a B737-800 aircraft operating as flight IX-812 from Dubai to Mangalore was involved in an accident early this morning, May 22, 2010. The accident occurred after the aircraft landed at Mangalore airport and overshot the runway. Air India is currently confirming the identities of the casualties. &nbs...

• Mangalore crash: Kerala High Court stays Rs 75 lakh compensation to victims' kin

  In a setback for families of victims of last year's Mangalore air crash, a division bench of the Kerala High Court today overruled a single judge bench order asking air India to pay Rs 75 lakh as minimum compensation to families of victims.

• Air India to pay Rs 75 lakh to Mangalore crash victims

  The Kerala High Court Wednesday directed Air India to pay interim compensation of Rs.75 lakh each to the kin of 158 passengers who died in an air crash in Mangalore last year.

• Mangalore crash: One year on

  A year ago, exactly on this day an Air India express aircraft over-shot the runway at Mangalore, killing 158 passengers flying from Dubai. Today, while the pain and grief has numbed for the victims' families, many of them still believe that the national carrier is haggling over the compensation they deserve."Nobody can manage the loss of my life. I...

• '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 ...

• The last 30 minutes of the plane that crashed at Mangalore

  Early morning on May 22, the Air Traffic Control of the Mangalore airport began communicating with a flight that was coming in from Dubai.  Half an hour later, the Air India flight crashed after the pilot overshot the runway. 158 people were killed.NDTV has exclusive access to the transcripts of that final half-hour exchange between the pilot ...

• 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.

• Air India holds prayer meet for Mangalore crash victims

  Air India CMD Arvind Jadhav and  Civil Aviation Secretary  Madhavan Nambiar addressed a multi-faith prayer meet in Mangalore for the Air India crash victims. They laid wreaths at the actual crash site and also attended another meet called for the victims' families. The Air India CMD also announced  that the final compensation to all ...

• Mangalore crash: Paramount Airways may lose license

  Just days after the Mangalore air crash that killed 158 people, airline safety has come back into the spotlight for most airlines.

• 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...

• He stole from those who died in Mangalore crash

  When Air India Express IX-812 crashed after overshooting the runway at the Mangalore airport, Sattar was one of several residents in the area who rushed to the accident site.