Emergency Response co-ordinator of Air India Harpreet Singh addressed the media in Mumbai today & confirmed that all the bodies of the Mangalore air crash victims have been recovered from the crash site. She said that investigations by the DGCA and Air India's flight safety department were on and the black box of the crashed aircraft is yet to be recovered. <br/>The emergency co-ordinator also said that 87 bodies have been handed over to the family members and relatives of the passengers who died in the Mangalore plane crash, while 79 bodies still remain unidentified. She said team of forensic experts have arrived at the site from Hyderabad to conduct DNA tests to help in identification of bodies charred beyond recognition in the Air India Express plane crash. She said Air India was trying its best to provide all assistance to the passengers' family members <br/>Harpreet also said that special arrangements have been made for the relatives of the dead to fly to Mangalore. She informed that International Agency for emergency response and rescue operations, US-based Kenyon, has already been contacted by Air India to support the airline in the search and retrieval operation. <br/>158 people died when the Mangalore-bound Boeing 737-800 flight from Dubai overshot the runway and burst into flames at the Bajpe airport in Mangalore yesterday morning. Eight persons survived.<br/>
News On AIR | May 23, 2010 12:28 PM
All bodies of Mangalore air crash victims recovered: Air India emergency response coordinator