Mangalore air crash: Embarrassed probe team replaces wrong crash pic

Mumbai: Who among the six investigators had marked the Mangalore air crash site wrong? That is one question whose answer will elude us forever. On Friday, TOI reported that the court of inquiry formed to probe the Mangalore crash had got the runway and crash site wrong. Within hours, the errors were corrected.
On May 22, an Air India Express Boeing 737 landed on Runway 24, overshot and crashed, killing 158. In a shocking mistake, the court of inquiry report marked the crash site at the end of Runway 27. The actual crash site was 1,826 m southwest of the wrong site.
Following the TOI report, the wrong photograph was removed from the ministry of civil aviation's website on Friday morning. By evening, the correct one was uploaded.
"There was an error and we have corrected that. We regret it," said S N Dwivedi, secretary to the court of inquiry and director of airworthiness, DGCA. "The information uploaded on the website wasn't the preliminary probe report," he said. The ministry website though, calls it the "initial investigation report".
10/07/10 Manju V/Times of India

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