Kerala Plane Crash: Last rites of Pilot & Co-Pilot to be held today

The ill-fated Air India Express flight from Dubai to Kozhikode tried to land amid heavy rains and low visibility at around 16 minutes before it landed and skidded off the tabletop runway causing a major accident on Friday. 

The last rites of Captain D.V. Sathe and his co-pilot Akhilesh Kumar will be held today.

A team of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) investigating the crash of Air India Express aircraft at the Kozhikode airport recovered its black box on Saturday.