An Air India Express jet reportedly overshot a runway in southern India early Saturday, falling into a valley, bursting into flames and killing 158 people on board, according to media reports.
There were eight survivors whose conditions were not immediately known, who were being treated at local hospitals, according to media reports. The pilot and co-pilots were reportedly among the dead.
Photos from the crash site posted on the New York Times Website showed local villagers at the crash site, pulling charred bodies from the wreckage, including that of a small child. Relatives that had been waiting at the airport were also at the scene.
The Boeing /quotes/comstock/13*!ba/quotes/nls/ba (BA 64.56, +1.56, +2.48%) 737 was traveling from Dubai to the city of Mangalore, on India's southwest coast, when it attempted to land at around 6:30 a.m. local time.