Staff Reporter

19 November 2010 Relatives of the victims of the AI Express plane that crashed in Mangalore are seeking answers from the airline after a leaked official inquiry report revealed that the pilot was in deep sleep during the journey.

The Court of Inquiry into the crash has found that the pilot in command, Zlatko Glusica, was disoriented and suffered from sleep inertia after he slept through more than half of the three-hour flight from Dubai on May 22. The expatriate pilot, whose snoring was captured by the flight data recorder, was also late in reacting to the warnings by his co-pilot H. S. Ahluwalia when he landed the flight after covering more than half of the runway.

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