Commemorations
The captain of the plane, D.K. Jatar who perished in the crash, later along with Co-Pilot, M.C Dixit and ground maintenance engineer Anant Karnik, became the first civilians to be awarded the Ashoka Chakra Award for "most conspicuous bravery, daring and self-sacrifice".
In 2005, the Xinhua News Agency hosted a symposium to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the crash in which three Xinhua journalists were among the victims.
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