Security personnel check the tail end of the crashed Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, at Meghani nagar, in Ahmedabad on Saturday. (Express photo by Sankhadeep Banerjee) The Centre has set up a high-level multi-disciplinary committee to look into Thursday’s crash of the Air India London-bound flight (AI 171) in Ahmedabad, which killed 241 people on board and many on the ground too.
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Status of victims’ bodies and DNA testing: As of 9 pm Saturday, the identities of 19 victims have been identified through DNA testing at the Ahmedabad Civil Hospital, Gujarat minister Harsh Sanghavi said. “Update as of 9:00 PM- 19 DNA samples have been matched so far, confirming the identities of victims. State Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) unit team and National Forensic Sciences University (NFSU) team are working through the night to match more DNA samples,” he wrote in a post on X. Of those identified, one body, that of Poornima Patel from Dakor, was handed over to her relatives on Saturday afternoon. the bodies of eight victims, who were identified by their relatives and did not need DNA profiling, have already been handed over to their families.
Compensation to kin of victims: Two days after the tragic accident involving Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner, the Tata Group, which owns the airline, said Rs 1 crore compensation to people who died on the ground as well. This came after their initial compensation announcement of Rs 1 crore to the families of the crash victims. Air India has also decided to make an additional interim payment of Rs 25 lakh to the families of those who died, and to the lone survivor of the crash, the airline’s CEO Campbell Wilson said in a statement on Saturday.
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