Air India "Black Box" Found
The investigators in southern India recovered the flight data recorder Sunday from the site of India's worst air crash in more than a decade. Eight people survived Saturday's crash, but 158 were killed.
Recovery of the Boeing 737's black box is crucial for determining what when wrong when the Air India Express plane overshot the Mangalore airport runway on landing, and skidded into a ravine before bursting into flames.
The Times of India reports that the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board is sending investigators to India at the request of the Indian government.
Boeing is also sending a team of experts to join the crash investigation.
The Press Trust of India says experts have arrived to conduct DNA tests to help in the identification of the charred bodies.
Officials say poor visibility and rainy weather may have played a role in the crash of the Boeing 737.
The plane was carrying 166 people, including a crew of six, on a flight from Dubai. All of the passengers were Indian nationals.
Survivors described a struggle to escape after the plane's fuselage split in two and caught fire.
Air India Express is the budget arm of the ailing state-run Air India. The Indian government has injected hundreds of millions of dollars into the carrier to keep it in business.
