The pilot of the doomed Air India flight is said to have "saved dozens of lives" due to his final decision before the plane struck a residential area. A total of 270 bodies have since been recovered following the horror crash in Ahmedabad on Thursday,

An Air India passenger plane carrying more than 200 people crashed after taking off from an airport in the Indian city of Ahmedabad on Thursday.

Three days after the crash, only 35 bodies had been handed over to relatives from an overall official death toll of 270.

Around 150 people gathered for a multi-faith vigil outside the Indian High Commission in London to pay their respects to the victims of the Air India plane crash. Candles were lit and placed around a statue of Jawaharlal Nehru as a tribute.

Air India's Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crash on June 12 has led to a DGCA investigation and enhanced safety checks. AI announced an interim payment of ₹25 lakh to each of the deceased's families and the survivor,

Raveena Tandon took to Instagram to show her faith in Air India, sharing that she recently chose to fly with the airline.

Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, a British national, appears to be the only survivor of Air India flight 171, which crashed with 242 people aboard.

More than 240 people were killed when an Air India plane bound for London crashed moments after taking off from the city of Ahmedabad on Thursday, authorities said, in the world's worst aviation disaster in a decade.