The Bombay High Court (HC) has overturned a labour court order that directed Air India (AI) Charters Ltd to pay Rs 4.63 crore in compensation to the family of a pilot of Air India Express, who died when the flight crashed at Mangaluru airport in 2010, news agency PTI reported.

The judgment was delivered on Wednesday, October 23, but was made public the following day. A single bench of Justice Sharmila Deshmukh ruled that AI Charters would be liable for compensation amounting to Rs 3.32 crore, computed as per the pilot's salary at the time of the crash. The court found the previous compensation order of Rs 4.63 crore to be flawed and in need of revision.