Investigators on Tuesday recovered the crucial “black box” — the digital flight data recorder (DFDR) — from the wreckage of the Boeing plane of Air India’s budget carrier, three days after it crashed here while landing killing 158 persons.

Two families from Kerala claimed the same body as heart-rending scenes were witnessed at the Wenlock Hospital with grieving relatives and friends going through a traumatic experience of looking at scores of charred bodies to identify them.

As the hunt for the black box and cockpit voice recorder gathered pace, “hydraulic failure” were the two words that were heard at Air Traffic Control in Mangalore, seconds after the ill-fated flight

An Air India Express plane from Dubai to Mangalore overshot the runway after touching down early on Saturday, veered off it and crashed into a forest about 100 metres below Mangalore’s Bajpe Internati