Investigators frantically sifted through the rubble of a crashed plane today looking for the black boxes – the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder – after India’s worst air crash in more than a decade killed 158 people.

Survivors of an air crash that killed nearly 160 people in India today told how they jumped from the burning plane as it broke up and plunged into a valley.

An Air India aircraft overshot a runway in Mangalore today, crashing into a gorge and killing all but a few of the 169 passengers on board.