Flight data recorders have been recovered from the wreckage of a Boeing 737 which crash-landed in India on Friday.

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Both pilots are among 18 dead in the accident in Kozhikode in Kerala state.

Around 150 passengers and crew were injured as the workers’ repatriation flight from Dubai plunged off the end of the runway.

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The plane carrying 190 people crash-landed and tore in two at an airport in southern India, killing at least 18 people and injuring scores more, officials revealed.

The Air India Express Boeing 737, on a special flight from Dubai to bring back Indians stranded overseas, overshot the runway at Kozhikode in Kerala state, plunged down an embankment and broke up.