Air India crew member body found in tail that crashed into mess
Chief Fire Officer Amit Dongre said the body had been sent to the Ahmedabad Civil Hospital for autopsy. The body has yet to be identified.
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The crash killed all but one of the passengers as well as four medical students and a doctor’s wife. (Express photo)Forty-eight hours after the crash, the body of an Air India flight attendant on board Air India flight AI 171 was retrieved from the tail section of the ill-fated aircraft, and more body parts were recovered from the debris of the mess building on Saturday.
The London-bound Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, carrying 242 people on board, crashed into BJ Medical College and Hospital’s Atulyam hostel within minutes after taking off on June 12. The crash killed all but one of the passengers as well as four medical students and a doctor’s wife on the ground.
It was the tail section that crashed into the hostel mess, where the medical students and the doctor’s wife had been having lunch. Search operations continue at the site, which now has heavy security as investigation continues into the cause of the crash.
“Personnel of the Ahmedabad Fire and Emergency Services were working on the tail section of the aircraft, which is lodged in the mess area of the hostel. While cutting through it, they found the body of the flight attendant,” one official said.
Chief Fire Officer Amit Dongre said the body had been sent to the Ahmedabad Civil Hospital for autopsy. The body is yet to be identified.
Ahmedabad Municipal Commissioner Banchhanidhi Pani told The Indian Express, “A team of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) teams led by Deputy Municipal Commissioner Central Zone and three Assistant Commissioners including Chief Fire Officer of the Fire Department, a divisional officer, a station officer and 12 firemen along with two fire tenders were involved in the search and rescue operations at the crash site, by whom the human organs in the mess building have been removed and sent to the Civil Hospital”.
Team was also roped from the engineering department that included 50 labourers led by additional city engineer, deputy city engineer, one assistant city engineer and 10 assistant engineers.
For the deceased, AMC has also arranged 35 dedicated ambulance vans to take the deceased from Ahmedabad city to their residence after issuing DNA reports, police action reports and death certificates.
“Adequate arrangements have been made in all crematoriums for the funeral of the deceased and a nodal officer has also been appointed by the AMC,” officials stated.
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