Pilot of crashed AIE flight one of the most experienced: Hardeep Singh Puri

Pilot in-command of the crashed Air India Express flight Captain Deepak Vasant Sathe, among those killed in the accident, was one of the most experienced commanders with more than 10K flying hours and had landed aircraft 27 times at the Karipur airport, civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Saturday. Eighteen people died in the crash out of 190 people aboard.