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Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru
Mangaluru, May 22: Commemorating the eleventh anniversary of the Air India Express crash at Mangaluru International Airport in 2010, the district administration paid a solemn homage to the victims of the crash here at the memorial at Tannirbhavi, on Saturday May 22.
District in-charge minister Kota Srinivas Poojary, MP Nalin Kumar Kateel, MLA Vedavyasa Kamath, deputy commissioner Dr K V Rajendra, and assistant commissioner Madan and others paid tribute to the departed souls.
It may be recalled, the Mangaluru air crash, one of India's worst aviation disasters, had accounted for the lives of 158 persons including the pilot and crew. As many as 19 children, four infants, and six airline crew died in the worst accident at the airport here.
The flight had a total number of 166 persons on board out of which eight survived. Those who died were from Dakshina Kannada, Udupi, and Uttara Kannada districts besides the neighbouring state of Kerala.