Indian authorities have found the flight data recorder of the Air India Express Boeing 737-800 that crashed at Mangalore International Airport on 22 May.

The FDR was handed to the air safety team of India's Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) today and will be taken to the DGCA headquarters in New Delhi, says the civil aviation ministry.

"[It] will be subjected to further tests for decoding and made available to the investigators," it adds.

An Air India spokesman says the FDR is "intact".

Investigators found the aircraft's cockpit voice recorder on 23 May, a day after the aircraft crashed and burst into flames when it overran the runway while landing at the airport in southern India.

The crash killed 158 people on board the aircraft, while eight survived.

Source: Air Transport Intelligence news