At least 274 people were killed in one of India's deadliest plane crashes involving a London-bound Air India flight in Ahmedabad earlier this week.

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

India aviation regulators said urgent safety checks would be carried out for dozens of Boeing 787 jets in the wake of the Air India crash that killed all but one of the 242 people on board. Air

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,

In a statement shared on social media platform X, Air India said that nine of its Boeing 787 aircraft have already undergone the required safety checks.

The London-bound Boeing 787 struck a medical college hostel in a residential area of the northwestern city of Ahmedabad.

Kanchan Patoliya, 62, was on her way to Surat from Ahmedabad, where she had gone to see off her grieving son Arjun, 37, a British national who had come to Gujarat to immerse the ashes of his wife who died of cancer, when her nephew called and asked her to get down at Vadodara and wait for him.

Chaired by Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan, the panel has the civil aviation secretary and the additional secretary in the home ministry as members, according to an order dated June 13.