U.S. team to assist in plane crash probe

Washington: A team from the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) was to arrive in India on Tuesday to assist investigators after a plane crash that killed 159 people.
On Saturday, Air India Express flight 812 from Dubai overshot a tricky hilltop runway while landing in the south-western city of Mangalore and crashed into a forested gorge, killing 159 people.
The aircraft broke into pieces and caught fire. Eight passengers who managed to jump out, survived. But one of them, a 4-year-old girl, later died in hospital.
Three officials from the NTSB, a US federal agency that investigates civil transportation accidents, will be joined by teams from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Boeing, an NTSB spokesman said.
The team was to leave the US on Sunday evening and arrive in Mangalore by Tuesday morning.
Boeing said in a statement that its team was invited by Indian authorities to provide technical assistance to the investigators.
23/05/10 DPA/The Hindu

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