A little more on the crew from a press conference (mostly in English, parts in Hindi and Malayalam) held today by Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri.
The captain was 59 years old, joined Air India Express in 2013. He had 10830 hours of flight time, 6662 in command and 4244 in command of the 737.
He had landed at Calicut 27 times.
The first officer had 1073 hours total time.
Minister Singh Puri (wearing the blue dastar) visits the accident site:
