A team from the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) led by the Regional Manager Air Safety, Raju visited the crash site on Sunday, where a private four-seater Pilactus 68 aircraft crash-landed, killing four persons on board on Sunday.
The team which arrived in Bangalore from Chennai visited the spot at Gowdanapalya lake and carried out preliminary investigations to find out what led to the crash of this ill-fated aircraft, owned by Kerala based Joy Alukkas Trading Company, barely minutes after it took off from the HAL Airport.
The DGCA team carried out investigations at the wreck and the residential localities adjoining the marshy lake, where one of the aircraft’s tyres had come out after hitting a palm tree and over head water tank.
Sources told Deccan Herald that the team later inspected the fuel station at the HAL Airport, from where the aircraft under went re-fuelling before taking-off to Cochin.
Though the team inspected the wreckage, it is yet to retrieve the flight data recorder, which would reveal to the investigators what pilots of the Italian made aircraft conveyed to the Air Traffic Control (ATC) during the final moments before it lost touch with them and other details.
Probe tomorrow
Further investigations would be carried out tomorrow when the flight data recorder would be retrieved.
"The team is yet to ascertain the reasons for the crash-landing of the aircraft. They are working on various factors that might have led to the accident, which includes the possibility of a fuel leakage ," said sources. 
Meanwhile, a team from Deccan Aviation covered the wreckage, inorder to protect it from any further damage from the rain. The police had a tough time controlling the public, as they continued to throng the lake bed for the second consecutive day.

CRASH VICTIMS’ KINS’ TALE OF WOE

Bangalore, DHNS: Heart-rending scenes were witnessed at the Kempe Gowda Institute of Medical Science (KIMS) as family members of victims of Saturday’s air crash received the bodies of their beloved ones. Speaking to Deccan Herald, they members narrated their beloveds’ passion for flying and how it eventually cut short their lives.
Sunil Joseph: A native of Kottayam in Kerala, Sunil is survived by his wife Anu and three daughters Riya (7), Richa (5) and a 20-day-old baby girl, whose naming ceremony was to be held shortly. “My aged parents, B M Joseph and Thayamma, are yet to come in terms with his death. Sunil had training in the US for five years and was imparting training at Air Titan Flying School at Kochi,” said Sunil’s brother, Vince.
Santosh Kumar: The pilot of the ill-fated aircraft, Santosh is a native of Bhagalpur near Patna. He was a flying instructor at the Madras Flying Club. He had 3,000 hours of flying experience.
He was assigned the task of flying the aircraft to Kochi and pick up Joy Alukkas, chairman of Joy Alukkas Group, and take him to Thiruvanthapuram.
His wife, Anu, along with sons, Vibhav (6) and Balaji (5) were at the hospital to receive the body which was later flown to Patna.
Mohammed Shabir: Shabir’s wife, along with one-year-old son and father Moinuddin and brother Javed received Shabir’s body. Shabir too had a total flying experience of 3,000 hours. K Shanmugam:  The co-pilot of the aircraft and youngest among the four, Shanmugam had recently completed his engineering course and was keen on pursuing a career in aviation sector, according to his brother Suresh.
A native of Vadalur village in Neyveli district of Tamil Nadu, Shanmugam was undergoing training at Madras Flying School.