Authorities start handing remains of Air India crash victims over to relatives

Indian authorities person started handing implicit remains of the victims of 1 of India’s worst aviation disasters aft identifying immoderate done DNA tests

AHMEDABAD, India -- Authorities person started handing implicit remains of the victims of 1 of India’s worst aviation disasters aft identifying immoderate done DNA tests, days aft the Air India formation crashed and killed astatine slightest 270 radical successful Gujarat state, officials said Sunday.

The London-bound Boeing 787 struck a aesculapian assemblage hostel successful a residential country of the northwestern metropolis of Ahmedabad minutes aft takeoff Thursday, sidesplitting 241 radical connected committee and astatine slightest 29 connected the ground. One rider survived.

Hundreds of relatives of the clang victims provided DNA samples astatine the hospital. Most of the bodies were charred oregon mutilated, making them unrecognizable.

Rajneesh Patel, an authoritative astatine the Civil Hospital successful Ahmedabad, said authorities person truthful acold identified 32 victims done DNA mapping and their families were informed. He said the remains of 14 victims were handed implicit to relatives.

The victims' families waited extracurricular the infirmary mortuary arsenic authorities worked to implicit formalities and transportation the bodies successful coffins into ambulances. Most of them person expressed vexation astatine a dilatory gait of the recognition process. Authorities accidental it usually takes up to 72 hours to implicit DNA matching and they are expediting the process.

Alongside the ceremonial investigation, the Indian authorities has acceptable up a high-level committee to analyse the causes starring to the crash. The committee volition absorption connected formulating procedures to forestall and grip craft emergencies successful the future, the Ministry of Civil Aviation said successful a connection Saturday.

Authorities person besides begun inspecting Air India’s full fleet of Boeing 787 Dreamliners, Minister of Civil Aviation Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu said Saturday successful New Delhi astatine his archetypal quality briefing since Thursday’s crash.

Eight of the 34 Dreamliners successful India person already undergone inspection, Kinjarapu said, adding that the remaining craft volition beryllium examined with “immediate urgency.”

Investigators connected Friday recovered the plane’s integer formation information recorder, oregon the achromatic box, from a rooftop adjacent the clang site.

The instrumentality is expected to uncover accusation astir the motor and power settings, portion the dependable recorder volition supply cockpit conversations, said Paul Fromme, a mechanical technologist with the U.K.-based Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

The level that crashed was 12 years old. Boeing planes person been plagued by information issues connected different types of aircraft. There are presently astir 1,200 of the 787 Dreamliner craft worldwide and this was the archetypal deadly clang successful 16 years of operation, according to experts.

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Hussain reported from Srinagar, India.

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