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The cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder were recovered the day after the crash and sent to Delhi for analysis.
The DGCA chief said the special audit was over and above the DGCA's routine checks and could cover a dozen airports including those in Chennai, Kochi, Trivandrum as well as Mumbai, all of which get heavy annual rains.
With the lead reinsurer of the plane approving the claim for total loss of the Dubai-Kozhikode flight, Air India Express will get the entire claim of $50 million.
The safety bed is a surface of concrete that gets crushed and sinks when an aircraft’s tyres run on it, thereby slowing down a flight that has overshot the runway and aiding in bringing it to a halt.
In an incisive statement, he said the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) was ultimately responsible for the August 7 plane accident at Karipur which killed at least 18 people including the pilot and the co-pilot.
Experts who saw the pictures of the cockpit taken from inside the plane after the accident believe that the flight probably overshot the runway and the pilots, unable to control the speed to bring it to a halt, tried to fly again but failed.
DGCA said the black box will be taken to Delhi for further investigations by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau. It was raining over the airfield and reported visibility at the time of landing was 2,000 metres.
India's top aviation body, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), has ordered a detailed inquiry into the matter.
Director General of Civil Aviation said the aircraft, carrying 190 passengers, fell into a 35-ft deep gorge and its fuselage split into two.
Amit Khare, secretary, Higher Education and Information and Broadcasting, explained to The Week, how the NEP, being rolled out after after three decades, will pan out over the next few years.