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Air India plane crashes in South India

Rescue personnel are seen near the smouldering wreckage of an Air India Boeing 737-800 aircraft which crashed upon landing in Mangalore on May 22, 2010. An Air India Express passenger plane crashed in flames after overshooting the runway in the southern city of Mangalore, killing most of the 166 people on board. The state-run carrier said

Rescue personnel are seen near the smouldering wreckage of an Air India Boeing 737-800 aircraft which crashed upon landing in Mangalore on May 22, 2010. (Getty Images)

An Air India Express passenger plane crashed in flames after overshooting the runway in the southern city of Mangalore, killing most of the 166 people on board. The state-run carrier said at least eight people had been rescued from the burning wreckage of the Boeing 737-800 which was carrying 160 passengers and six crew on a flight from Dubai. (Getty Images)

Air India Director (Personnel) Anup Srivastava speaks during a media briefing on the Air India aircraft which had crashed at Mangalore, in Mumbai on May 22, 2010.

Onlookers react at the crash site of an Air India Boeing 737-800 aircraft in Mangalore on May 22, 2010.(Getty Images)

Rescue personnel recover a body from the crash site of an Air India Boeing 737-800 aircraft in Mangalore on May 22, 2010. (Getty Images)

Arabian Business at the accident site of the Dubai-Mangalore flight that crashed in India on Saturday.

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