New Delhi, May 23: BJP president Nitin Gadkari has asked senior party leader and MP Shahnawaz Hussain to visit Mangalore and Kerala to meet survivors and family members of those killed in the Air India plane crash.
Shahnawaz will leave for Bangalore tomorrow to visit the crash site and meet survivors who are undergoing treatment at various hospitals there, party sources said.
He will then proceed to Kerala to meet family members of those killed in the air crash. Most of the passengers of the ill-fated flight from Dubai to Mangalore, were from Kerala.
All but eight of the 166 passengers on board the plane died when it overshot the runway while landing and went down a ravine before bursting into flames yesterday morning.
–Agencies