According to Indian civil aviation, this long -haul carried 230 passengers – 169 Indians, 53 British, 7 Portuguese and a Canadian – and 12 crew members.
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Indian authorities announced Wednesday, June 18, that they have identified the bodies of more than 200 victims of the 171 flight from Air India who crashed on June 12 on Ahmedabad, in northwestern India. According to Rakesh Joshi, the medical director of the city’s civil hospital, 208 victims had been identified on Wednesday. The Boeing 787 accident, just after taking off to Gatwick London Airport, left at least 279 dead, according to the latest official assessment, the worst air disaster in the world since 2014.
According to Indian civil aviation, this long -haul carried 230 passengers – 169 Indians, 53 British, 7 Portuguese and a Canadian – and 12 crew members. A single passenger, sitting near an emergency exit at the front of the aircraft, miraculously survived the fall of the plane. According to the latest assessment, at least 38 people were killed on the ground.
The civil aviation investigators in charge of the survey recovered the two black boxes of the plane, which record the conversations in the cockpit and the technical parameters of the flight. According to the first elements of the investigation, the pilot made an emergency call just after takeoff. Video images broadcast after the disaster then show the plane incapable of gaining altitude and then crashing heavily on the ground in a ball of orange fire.
