KOZHIKODE/NEW DELHI: The black box of the ill-fated Air India Express flight that could throw light on how it overshot the runway here and crashed has been recovered while the toll in the mishap rose to 18 on Saturday with a passenger succumbing to injuries, officials said.
Hours after the AIE flight from Dubai with 190 people on board overshot the tabletop runway at the airport here while landing in heavy rains and fell into a gorge 35 feet below and broke into two portions on Friday night, investigations into the cause of the mishap are underway with top officials of the airlines and aviation regulator DGCA rushing here.
Civil Aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri also arrived here to take stock of the situation.
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