A victim of the Air India Express plane crash in Calicut, Kerala, India, shared his experience on Saturday as officials announced that a black box from the plane had been recovered.

The man said the pilot had tried to land the plane twice in in inclement weather, and it was on the second attempt that the plane skidded from the runway.

At least 18 people were killed and 173 others were wounded on Friday when an Air India Express flight overshot the runway at the Kozhikode International Airport in Calicut, located in the state of Kerala, nosedived and cracked in two.

The country’s civil aviation minister on Saturday urged people not to speculate as to the cause of the crash, stating that the immediate details “will be known” once the flight recorder can be examined.

The Air India Express flight was a repatriation flight operated by the government to bring home Indians during international travel restrictions due to the spread of COVID-19.

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