Lives Lost in India Crash: Expectant Grandparents, a Boy Selling Tea
At the hospital in Ahmedabad, family members were giving DNA samples, waiting for official confirmation of their loss in the Air India disaster, and remembering their loved ones.
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At the hospital in Ahmedabad, family members were giving DNA samples, waiting for official confirmation of their loss in the Air India disaster, and remembering their loved ones.
The flight was bound for England, where family and friends of some of the 241 victims on board, including 52 British nationals, were left searching for answers.
Families lined up for hours to give DNA samples so the authorities could match names to victims of Thursday’s crash, which killed at least 269 people.
Maj. Gen. Mohammad Bagheri, the chief of staff of Iran’s armed forces, among the dead, according to Iranian state media. Officials said a top nuclear negotiator was also killed.
After the collapse killed 236 people, an employee came forward with evidence the owners had been warned the roof posed a danger.
Viswash Kumar Ramesh, 38, who sustained multiple injuries, a doctor said, was the only passenger out of 242 people on board the plane to walk away.
The London-bound Boeing Dreamliner went down moments after takeoff in Ahmedabad, India, with 242 people aboard. Dozens more on the ground perished as the plane exploded on the campus of a medical college.
Plane travel is statistically one of the safest modes of travel. But when things goes wrong, the results are often disastrous.
A passenger flight traveling from Ahmedabad, a city in western India, to London crashed shortly after takeoff.
A passenger flight traveling from Ahmedabad, a city in western India, to London crashed shortly after takeoff.