Mangalore air crash kills 158
Air India plane overshoots runway before bursting into flames; 8 survive
Bangalore, May 22
In one of the worst aviation tragedies in the country, 158 persons were killed when an Air India Express Boeing plane from Dubai overshot the runway, went down a ravine and burst into flames at the Mangalore International Airport today.

Rescue operation on at the site of the crashed Air India passenger plane in Mangalore on Saturday. — Reuters

Graphic: Fatal Landing: Mangalore Air Crash
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Survivors recount ordeal
Pilot was of Serbian origin
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Kin to get Rs 76 lakh compensation
Country has three table-top airfields

What went wrong?
Govt points finger at shorter runway, experts say could be pilot error
New Delhi, May 22
The Air India Express flight IX-812 aircraft that crashed at Mangalore was piloted by Z Glucia — a Serbian national — with first officer Capt SS Ahluwalia as his co-pilot.

Leaders mourn tragedy
PM postpones anniversary dinner
New Delhi, May 22
Expressing deep shock over the tragic air accident in Mangalore, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today postponed all functions, including the dinner at his residence, to mark the first year of the UPA-II government.

A320 aircraft to ferry victims’ kin
New Delhi, May 22
Air India has decided to operate a larger aircraft on the Delhi-Mangalore sector instead of its regular Canadian Regional Jet (CRJ) aeroplane in order to fly family members of the crash victims, arriving from abroad as well as from within the country, to Mangalore.

Punjab & Haryana HC has 16 ‘uncle judges’
Chandigarh, May 22
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has as many as 16 Judges with their kith and kin practising in the same court. The Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court has already forwarded their list to the Union Ministry of Law and Justice.

Special to The Tribune
Punjabi colour in UK Cabinet cause to cheer
The appointment of a Punjabi to serve in the British cabinet — the first time in history that this has ever happened — is a cause for celebration.
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Kaithal girl scales Mt Everest Kaithal, May 22 Some good news from the heartless Haryana heartland notorious for its khap panchayats and caste violence: Defying all odds, a young girl from a poor Dalit family of Kaithal today scaled Mt Everest. Hope peaks: Mamta Sodha with her mother. This poor Dalit girl conquered all odds to emerge a winner. Photo by the writer World page: US boy is youngest Everest conqueror Nation page: Donde is first Indian to sail solo around world