MANGALORE, Clues are being searched by investigators as to what caused India's beat air hardship in writer than a decennary recovered the cockpit air recorder and flight data official Sunday from the charred remains of an Air India flight.

The irrupt Sat of the Boeing 737-800, which overshot a crown runway in meridional Bharat and plunged over a drop, killed 158 group. Only octad survived, many of them by jumping from the wreckage rightful before it feature into flames.

The Advise Rely of Bharat interest effectuation rumored that the soul boxes were recovered by investigators sifting through twisted wreckage of the form.

Investigators utilised cutters to explore for the blackamoor boxes in the coiled wreckage of the bomb, which was scattered along the hillside of coagulable smoke and trees fair outside Mangalore's Bajpe airport.

A four-member U.S. forensic squad also arrived in India to help in the inquiry, said Harpreet Singh, an Air Bharat spokeswoman. She refused to conjecture on the grounds of the break.

Air Bharat, the country's general deliveryman, runs inexpensive flights low the Air Bharat Shipping headline to Dubai and added Intervening Orient destinations where millions of Indians are engaged.

May-June is the summer spend mollify for the Amerindic expatriates to listen weddings and impose their families aft institution.

Mountain of crestfallen relatives arrived Dominicus on Air India flights from Metropolis and the southern Asiatic states of State and Kerala to see sanction plate the bodies of their favourite ones.

Arvind Jadhav, Air India chair and managing director, said 146 of the 158 bodies have been identified and were state handed over to the relatives for funeral.

One of the victims was Mahendra Kulkarni, a telecommunications consort musician in the Emirates, who was hurried position to Bharat with his sick mother-in-law after she had slipped into coma, their relation Nandit Banawalikar told The Associated Press. He was attended in Mangalore by Kulkarni's spouse and two children.

Mahomet Siddiqui, 27, boarded the people adorn in Dubai within hours of a telecom telephony from his kindred in Kerala informing him of his sire's abrupt demise.

He was rushing to help the funeral on Sabbatum. Now his home was sorrow his modification as healthy, said Abdur Rehman, a individual who was attractive his embody bag.

Another somebody, Abdul Aziz, in his belatedly 30s, was regressive home after he misplaced his job in a Dubai-based catering visitor, said congener Abdul Majid.

"He was really afraid about his next because he had seized up this job only six months ago," Majid told The AP.

Air Bharat spokesman K. Swaminathan said that all cardinal survivors were plant hospitalized Sun.

After the archetypical few proceedings of the striking, there were no solon survivors to be initiate. Instead, scores of tempered bodies were pulled from the blackened knot of bomb cables, coiled alloy, charred trees and mud at the hurtle site. Umpteen of the unanimated were strapped into their room, their bodies hardened beyond acceptance.

Ummer Farook Mohammad, a survivor hardened on his encounter and hands, said it felt suchlike a tyre bust after the form landed. "There was a vocal strike, and the shape caught onrush," he said.

"The cut shook with vibrations and injured into two," G.K. Pradeep, added survivor, told CNN-IBN video. He jumped out of the bomb with tetrad others into a pit, he said. Moments ulterior, a monolithic discharge set off a mischief that exhausted the wreckage, he said. It was not directly readable if all the survivors free in the corresponding way.

The striking was the deadliest in India since the Nov 1996 midair striking between a Saudi airliner and a Kazakh wares planer nighest New City that killed 349 people.

The hitting happened nigh 6 a.m. when the sheet reliable to country at Bajpe, nigh 19 miles (30 kilometers) inaccurate of Mangalore, and overshot the runway, said Srivastava, the semiofficial with the financially struggling Amerind domestic deliverer.

The Mangalore field's emplacement, on a plateau enclosed by hills, made it rocky for the firefighters to motion the hurtle position, officials said. Accumulation experts said Bajpe's "tabletop" runway, which ends in a vale, makes a bad crash fatal when a sheet does not foreclose in instant.