Investigators have recovered the digital flight data recorder of the Air India flight which crashed and killed 158 people in southern India over the weekend, police said today.

India’s civil aviation minister said today that human error might have caused the crash of an Air India Boeing 737-800 plane that killed 158 people over the weekend.

INVESTIGATORS searching for clues as to what caused India’s worst air disaster in more than a decade recovered the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from the charred remains of an Air India flight.

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.

Survivors of a plane crash in India, which killed at least 158 people, have spoken of their escape from the burning aircraft as it broke apart.

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.

Around 160 people are feared dead after an Air India plane crash at an airport in southern India, a minister has said.

Police arrested six members of a hard-line Hindu group today for attacking and cutting the hair of three couples on Valentine's Day near the Taj Mahal - India's white-marble monument to love.

A speeding school bus plunged into a river in southern India today killing at least nine schoolchildren and two adults.

The two-year-old Indian girl born with four arms and four legs was showing the first sign of improvement today after an operation to remove the extra limbs, doctors said.

At least 20 people were killed today when an express train hit boulders on a bridge and two carriages were left hanging over a precipice 125 miles from Bombay in western India.

The death toll from a train that derailed when it hit a boulder in western India climbed to 51 today, officials said.

Four carriages of a passenger train derailed in India, killing at least 17 passengers and injuring 25 others, officials said today.

At least 19 people were confirmed dead and more than 200 people were taken to hospital today after three carriages from a passenger train derailed and plunged into a river in the southern Indian state of Kerala, officials said.