Indian authorities have started handing over remains of the victims of one of India's worst aviation disasters after identifying some through DNA tests.

The horrific crash of Air India Flight AI171 on Thursday, June 12, 2025, has left the nation in profound grief, with the confirmed death toll now sta

By Abhijith Ganapavaram, Aditya Kalra and Sudipto GangulyAHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) -Officials from the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) surveyed the site of Air India plane crash that killed at least 271 people,

Indian investigators have recovered the digital flight data recorder or the black box of the Air India flight that crashed a day earlier.

Seconds after the distress call, ATC responded but the plane had crashed by then, killing 241 people on board.

The only known surviving passenger was in seat 11A, next to an emergency exit, said Vidhi Chaudhary, a top state police officer, adding that there could be more survivors in hospital.

A father of two who had traveled from the U.K. to India to spread his wife's ashes died in the Air India crash on June 12, leaving the couple's two daughters, ages 4 and 8, orphaned. Arjun Patoliya, 37,

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.