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 home is crowded with relatives but the only voice that carries through the room is hers – spilling with loss.Just 15 days ago, she buried her husband. On 12 June, her 30-year-old son Lawrence Daniyal Christian,

Authorities are still in the process of identifying the victims. So far, DNA matches have been established for 32 individuals, and the bodies of 14 have been handed over to families, according to Dr.

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

The London-bound plane struck a medical college hostel in a residential area of the northwestern city of Ahmedabad minutes after takeoff Thursday, killing 241 on board and at least 29 on the ground.

AHMEDABAD, 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, sources said on Sunday, with families continuing to wait for DNA profiling results to identify charred bodies.

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.