Kozhikode Air India plane crash live updates: Black box brought o DGCA lab in Delhi

Mohammed Riyas VP, 24 years - Palakkad, Saheer Sayed, 38 years -Malappuram, Lailabi KV, 51 years -Malappuram, Rajeevan Cherikka Parambil, 61 years - Kozhikode, Manal Ahamed, 25 years - Kozhikode, Sharafudheen, 35 years - Kozhikode, Janaky Kunnoth, 55 years - Kozhikode, Azam Muhammed Chembayi ,1 year - Kozhikode, Santha Marakkat, 59 years - Malappuram, Sudheer Vaariyath, 45 years -Malappuram, Sheza Fathima, 2 years -Malappuram, Remya Muraleedharan, 32 years - Kozhikode

Akhilesh Kumar (Airline crew ), Deepak Sathe (Airline crew), Aysha Dua, 2 years - Palakkad, Shivathmika, 5 Years- Kozhikode, Zhenobia, 40 years - Kozhikode, Sahira Banu, 29 years - Kozhikode

Air India team to liaise with various agencies and provide support and assistance to families of passengers affected by the Air India Express crash left for Kozhikode from Mumbai on Saturday morning. Called "Angels of Air India’’, this special assistance team had come together after the Mangalore air crash in May 2010 as well to offer assistance, including grief counselling to family members of the deceased.

The Kerala government will conduct COVID-19 tests of all the people involved in rescue operations at Kozhikode Airport as part of the precautionary measure, said KK Shailaja, Kerala Health Minister adding that they should go into self-quarantine. "All those who were involved in rescue operations at Kozhikode Airport should go into self-quarantine. State Government will conduct COVID-19 tests of all," said KK Shailaja.

Minister of state for external affairs V Muraleedharan was briefed by the officials of Air India and Airport Authority of India (AAI) on how the accident had occurred. "Visited the crash site at #Calicut Airport. Officials of @airindiain and AAI briefed on how the accident had occurred. The investigation is on to ascertain various aspects of the crash," the minister said in a tweet.

One of the 18 passengers, who died when an Air India Express flight from Dubai crashed landed at the airport here, has tested positive for Covid-19. Higher education minister K T Jaleel told the media that samples of the passenger, Sudheer Varyath (45), were sent for testing and it has returned positive for the disease.