Wife Sushma Sathe, younger son Dhananjay Sathe (blue shirt) and elder son Shantanu (black shirt) pay their last respects to Wing Commander (retired) Deepak Sathe before his cremati...
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Police personnel pay gun salute to Wing Commander (retired) Deepak Sathe during his funeral ceremony at Tagore Nagar (Vikroli) crematorium in Mumbai. Sathe, pilot-in-command of the...
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Air India staff members pay tribute to the mortal remains to Air India Express pilot Captain Deepak Sathe, who died during a crash at Kozhikode International Airport on Friday nigh...
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Air India staff members pay tribute to the mortal remains to Air India Express pilot Captain Deepak Sathe, who died during a crash at Kozhikode International Airport on Friday nigh...
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Wife Sushma Sathe and younger son Dhananjay Sathe pay tribute to Air India Express pilot Captain Deepak Sathe, who died during a crash at Kozhikode International Airport on Friday ...
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Family members and Air India staff pay homage to Captain Deepak Sathe who died during a crash at Kozhikode International Airport on Friday night, at the airport in Mumbai. The mort...
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Officials stand by the debris of the Air India Express flight that skidded off a runway while landing in Kozhikode, Kerala state. The special evacuation flight bringing people home...
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Security personnel stand guard near the mangled remains of an Air India Express flight, en route from Dubai, after it skidded off the runway while landing on Friday night, at Karip...
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Mangled remains of an Air India Express flight, en route from Dubai, after it skidded off the runway while landing on Friday night, at Karippur in Kozhikode.
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Mangled remains of an Air India Express flight, en route from Dubai, after it skidded off the runway while landing on Friday night, at Karippur in Kozhikode.
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Mangled remains of an Air India Express flight, en route from Dubai, after it skidded off the runway while landing on Friday night, at Karippur in Kozhikode.
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Mangled remains of an Air India Express flight, en route from Dubai, after it skidded off the runway while landing on Friday night, at Karippur in Kozhikode.
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Officials stand on the debris of the Air India Express flight that skidded off a runway while landing in Kozhikode, Kerala state.
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Union Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri enquires during his visit to the crash site of an Air India Express flight, en route from Dubai, after it skidded off the runway wh...
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Mangled remains of an Air India Express flight en route from Dubai after it skidded off the runway while landing, at Karippur in Kozhikode.
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Mangled remains of an Air India Express flight en route from Dubai after it skidded off the runway while landing, at Karippur in Kozhikode.
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Officials stand on the debris of the Air India Express flight that skidded off a runway while landing at the airport in Kozhikode, Kerala state.
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The Air India Express flight that skidded off a runway while landing at the airport in Kozhikode. The special evacuation flight bringing people home to India who had been trapped a...
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Mangled remains of an Air India Express flight en route from Dubai after it skidded off the runway while landing, at Karippur in Kozhikode.
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Rescue operation underway after an Air India Express flight with passengers on board en route from Dubai skidded off the runway while landing, at Karippur in Kozhikode.
The 46 experts of Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau are required to carry out the investigation of aircraft accidents. However, the panel investigating the Kerala plane crash has only one member from the AAIB.
GR Kathpalia, who had served as DG in DGCA for eight years, says the Investigator-in-Chief should definitely be a person with prior experience in the field of air crash investigation.
A Public Interest Litigation pending before the Kerala High Court has demanded a Court of Inquiry to ascertain the reason for the crash and a CBI investigation for potential criminal action against the officers involved.
The wreckage of the cockpit of the crashed Air India Express plane suggests that after the pilots landed on the runway in Calicut, they had attempted to take off again, perhaps realising they might not be able to stop the plane.
Independent safety experts have raised serious reservations on the competence of the investigator-in-charge and integrity of some of the members of the probe team.