Around a hundred and sixty people are feared dead after a plane crash in southern India. It happened when an Air India flight arriving from Dubai crash-landed near Mangalore airport and caught fire. So far about eighty bodies have been recovered. Many of the dead were still strapped into their seats. A spokesman for the airline says eight people have survived and have been taken to hospital. Officials say conditions at the airport were poor.
AssociatedPress — May 22, 2010 — As many as 160 people were feared dead in India on Saturday after an Air India Express plane arriving from Dubai crashed and burst into flames at dawn as it overshot a runway in the south of the country while trying to land in the rain. (May 22)
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