Pilot error likely caused fatal Air India Express crash - report

FILE PHOTO: Wife of deceased Air India pilot Deepak Sathe places flowers on his coffin during his funeral in Mumbai, India, August 11, 2020. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas/File Photo

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Pilot error and a failure to follow safety guidelines probably caused the Air India Express crash that killed 21 people last year, the country's worst aviation accident in a decade, investigators said in a report on Saturday.

The Boeing 737, repatriating Indians stranded in Dubai due to the coronavirus pandemic, overshot the table-top runway and crashed https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-crash-idUSKCN25509N while landing at Calicut International Airport in the southern state of Kerala in heavy rain on Aug. 8, 2020.