The death toll in the deadly Air India plane crash rose to 270 on Saturday, June 14, with families increasingly getting upset due to delays in handing over bodies which were badly charred in the tragedy in Ahmedabad.
The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner with 242 people on board bound for Britain’s Gatwick Airport began losing height seconds after take-off on June 12 and erupted in a fireball as it hit buildings below, in what has been the world’s worst aviation disaster in a decade.
At least 270 bodies have been recovered from the site of the plane crash, Dhaval Gameti, president of the Junior Doctors Association at B.J. Medical College said.
Only one of the 242 passengers and crew onboard survived while others were killed as the plane struck the medical college’s hostel as it came down.
