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Pilot makes final thrust before crashing,black box found

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-05-23 15:50
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NEW DELHI - The pilot of the Air India jet which crashed in Mangalore in southern India Saturday made a final thrust before the final crash, as is shown by the forward position of the throttle found by search workers on the site of the crash, reported local TV channel Times Now Sunday.

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Meanwhile, a survivor of the plane crash told local media that the pilot tried to take off the plane again after touching down.

Civil aviation sources said earlier that one of the wheels of the plane failed to touch down on the runway which could have led to the plane to get out of control.

Indian investigators have recovered the black box of the ill-fated Air India Express plane from its charred debris, more than 30 hours after it crashed while landing at Mangalore airport in the southern state of Karnataka, sources said.

"The black box has been recovered from the crash site. It is vital in finding information about key details like the last moments of the flight and whether there was any error from the pilot's side.

The box will be brought to the accident lab of the Director General of Civil Aviation in the national capital where it will be opened and to find out what exactly went wrong," the sources said. Experts from the plane's manufacturer Boeing are also going to help in deciphering the flight data recorder, the sources said.