Rescuers and tracking dogs continue to search the Boeing 787 accident on Friday, June 13, which crashed the day before in a residential area of Ahmedabad, in the northwest of India, killing at least 265 people. One of the passengers on flight 171, which transported 242 people, miraculously survived the accident, happened just after taking off London.
The impact of the aircraft was still visible on Friday on the second floor of a residence in which doctors and medical students lived in a nearby hospital.
According to the latest evaluation provided by a local police officer, Kanan Desai, rescuers have already extracted 265 bodies of the plane’s debris and the buildings in which he crashed.
According to his count, at least 24 people were killed on the ground when the plane crashed into the residence of doctors. The evaluation could increase as other bodies are found. “The official number of victims will only be declared once DNA tests have completed,” said Interior Minister Shah, on Thursday night.
The Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, of the state of Gujarat, of which Ahmedabad is the main city, went to the scene already wounded on Friday morning, according to local television images. “The tragedy of Ahmedabad has surprised us and saddened us all. This breaks our hearts beyond the words,” he told the announcement of the disaster on Thursday.
DNA of collected families
According to Indian civil aviation, Air India flight had embarked 230 passengers: 169 Indians, 53 British members, 7 Portuguese and a member of the Canadian and twelve -crew member. The only survivor is a British of Indian origin, said the company. The Indian media said Vishwash Kumar Ramsh occupied the 11A seat in the front of the plane. The videos transmitted on social networks have shown it in a bloody shirt, staying to an ambulance.
“I have no idea how I left this plane,” he told his brother Nayan Kumar Ramesh, 27, cited by the Press Association of the British Press Agency. Throughout the night, the relatives of the victims were at the Faculty of Medicine of Ahmedabad to show their DNA at the end of the identification of the bodies.
Ashfacque Nanabawa, 40, told AFP that his cousin Akeel Nanabawa was on board with his three -year -old wife and daughter. He spoke with him for a few minutes when he was sitting on the plane, before takeoff. “He told us: ‘I’m on the plane, (…) Everything is fine.’ It was his last call.” A woman explained that her son, the law lost her life in the accident.
A call of anguish issued just before the accident
“My daughter doesn’t know she’s no longer there,” he told AFP as he cleans his tears. “I can’t tell him the news, can anyone do it for me, please?” She implored. The plane crashed less than a minute after taking off at 1:39 pm local time (8:09 GMT), according to Indian civil aviation. He immediately made a call of anguish before colliding far beyond the airport.
According to a source close to the archive, this accident is the first of a Dreamliner B-787, a long service entered service in 2011. The British and American survey survey announced that they were sent to each of the teams to support their Indian counterparts of the Aeronautical Accident Research Office (AAIB).
The Tata Group, owner of Air India, said that the financial assistance of 110,000 euros for the families of each deceased, also promised to cover the medical costs of the injured.
In 1996, a 763 flight from Saudi Arabia airlines crashed on a complete flight near New Delhi with the 1907 flight from Kazakhstan Airlines. The 349 people on both planes had been killed, making this event the most fatal air collision in history.
Since 2000, worldwide, six aerial disasters have killed more than 200 people. Thursday’s accident arrives in a country where air traffic has exploded in recent years.
Source: BFM TV
