Bodies of pilot, co-pilot handed over to family members
Kozhikode: The bodies of the pilot and co-pilot of the Air India Express flight that crashed while attempting to land at the Karipur airport here, were handed over to their families on Saturday.
The relatives came with the AIE officials and the remains were taken to Ernakulam to be taken to their respective native places, Malappuram District Collector K Gopalakrishnan told PTI.
"The bodies have been handed over to their families who came with AIE officials around 5 pm and as I understand they have moved to Cochin for onward journey to their respective destinations," Gopalakrishnan, who coordinated the rescue operations, said.
The Air India Express crash last night left 18 on board dead and 172 injured, some seriously. Captain Deepak Vasanth Sathe and First Officer Akilesh Kumar, were in command of the AIE.
Kozhikode district collector S Sambasiva Rao told PTI that the bodies were embalmed after conducting post-mortem at the Medical College hospital here and were handed over to the families by evening.
An alumnus of the National Defence Academy, Captain Sathe was a Wing Commander in Indian Air Force before he joined commercial aircraft flying. A resident of Powai in Mumbai, Captain Sathe is survived by wife and two sons. His father Colonel Vasath Sathe and mother Neela stay in Nagpur.
A native of Mathura in Uttar Pradesh, Akilesh Kumar is survived by his wife Megha whom he married in 2017. He is also survived by two younger brothers, sister and his parents.
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Congress names candidates for 8 Haryana LS seats, fields Kumari Selja, Deepender Hooda
Chandigarh (PTI): The Congress on Thursday announced candidates for eight of the nine Lok Sabha seats it is contesting in Haryana, fielding former Union minister Kumari Selja, Rajya Sabha MP Deepender Hooda and youth leader Divyanshu Budhiraja, besides two sitting MLAs.
The party has also fielded former MP Jai Prakash and leaders Satpal Brahmachari and Mahendra Pratap, according to the list released late Thursday evening.
The Congress is contesting nine of the 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana. It has not yet announced its candidate for the Gurugram constituency.
The Aam Aadmi Party, a constituent of the opposition INDIA bloc, will contest the Kurukshetra seat.
Congress general secretary and former Union minister Selja will contest from the Sirsa (reserved) seat and sitting MLAs Varun Choudhary and Rao Dan Singh from the Ambala (reserved) and the Bhiwani-Mahendragarh Lok Sabha seats, respectively.
Deepender Hooda, son of former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, will enter the fray from Rohtak. He has represented the Rohtak parliamentary constituency three times in the past.
Jai Prakash has been fielded from Hisar, the Congress' Haryana youth wing president Divanshu Budhiraja from Karnal, Satpal Brahmachari from Sonipat and Mahendra Pratap from Faridabad.
