In the worst air crash in India in the last decade, an Air India flight from Dubai overshot the runway and crashed at the Mangalore airport on Saturday morning, killing 158 passengers.
Air India on Sunday said that 87 bodies have been handed over to the family members and relatives of the passengers who died in the Mangalore plane crash. All the 158 bodies have been recovered from the crash site, Air India spokesperson Harpreet Singh De said. Air India was trying its best to provide all assistance to the passengers' family members, she said. An international agency for emergency response and rescue operations, US-based Kenyon, has already been contacted.
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