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At least 270 died when the Air India flight crashed into the campus of a medical college in Ahmedabad shortly after takeoff on Thursday. Only one passenger among the 242 aboard survived. At least 29 others on the ground, including five medical students inside the hostel, were also killed.
Indian authorities have started handing over remains of the victims of one of India’s worst aviation disasters after identifying some through DNA tests.
His family will honor him at home before his last rites, following the disaster that resulted in 291 fatalities, including Sabharwal.
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Indian investigators have recovered the digital flight data recorder or the black box of the Air India flight that crashed a day earlier.
A 28-year-old student who was visiting western India says she missed her Air India flight back to London. That flight was AI171, which crashed shortly after takeoff.
An Air India flight was forced to turn around and return to Hong Kong after an unspecified technical issue was discovered with the aircraft. The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner—the same craft involved in last week’s devastating crash in Ahmedabad which killed over 270 people—was an hour into a flight to New Delhi when the pilot suspected a problem and turned around to avoid a repeat of the tragedy.