Crash plane's black boxes recovered

An investigator, has recovered parts of the digital data recorder from the Air India plane which crashed killing 158 people in India at the weekend.

The device, which indicates the plane's speed, angle and landing approach, could provide clues about India's worst air accident in 14 years.

The Boeing 737 flight from Dubai to the Indian city of Mangalore

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overshot a hilltop runway, crashed and plunged over a cliff on Saturday. Officials have since said human error may have been to blame.

Aviation investigators found the other black box – the cockpit voice recorder – in the wreckage on Sunday.

Yesterday, Air India flew the body of the flight's commander, Zlatko Glusica, to Germany, where it will be received by his son and brother and later taken to his native Serbia. Mr Glusica, 55, had been flying for Air India for three years.

Meanwhile, doctors carried out DNA tests on 22 bodies that were so badly burned that relatives could not identify them. They included a two-year-old boy.

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