Air India crash in pictures

The pictures here show the grisly but gruelling task of sifting through the wreck of an Air India Express plane that overshot the runway and plunged into a ravine in Mangalore Saturday, killing at least 158 people. The Boeing 737-800, carrying 160 passengers and six crew on a flight from Dubai, careered off the end of the 'table-top' runway at Bajpe airport and plunged into a forested gorge where it was engulfed in flames. There were a handful of survivors.


An Indian firefighter carrying a child, covered in foam used to put out fire, from the crash zone yesterday. It is not known if the child survived but reports say all but eight of the 166 passengers and crew on the flight were killed. -- PHOTO: AP



Indian firefighters and rescue personnel try to extinguish the fire around the wreckage of an Air India plane that crashed in Mangalore, in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. --PHOTO: AP


Rescue personnel recover a body from the crash site of an Air India Boeing 737-800 aircraft in Mangalore. --PHOTO: AFP



Volunteers take away the body of a victim at the crash site of an Air India Express plane in Mangalore, in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. --PHOTO: AP



A surviving child is taken to a hospital after the plane crash in Mangalore. --PHOTO: REUTERS



People milling around the wreckage of Air India Express Flight IX-812. Most of the passengers aboard were Indian nationals who worked in Dubai. -- PHOTOS: AP

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