A figure that continues to rise. The provisional evaluation of the Air India Boeing 787 accident, which crashed Thursday after taking off from Ahmedabad, in the northwest of India, bound for London, went to 279, we learned this Saturday, June 14 of the police source.
A total of 279 bodies or body pieces to the city hospital have been sent from the disaster, said this source anonymously to the AFP.
The previous evaluation reported 265 victims, passengers and members of the plane crew or victims killed in the field for their fall.
Air India Flight 171 crushed less than a minute after takeoff at 1:39 pm to Gatwick London airport, according to Indian civil aviation. He had made a call of anguish almost immediately after leaving the ground, before reaching a residential area of Ahmedabad located beyond the airport, including a residence of doctors and students of a neighboring hospital.
A single passenger survived the accident
According to Indian civil aviation, Boeing 787 had embarked 230 passengers: 169 Indians, 53 British members, 7 Portuguese and a member of the Canadian crew, and twelve. Only one of the passengers sitting at the front of the device miraculously survived the accident and was able to get out of his injured debris.
The Indian Minister of Interior Amit Shah indicated that the final evaluation of the disaster, one of the most mortal in the world since 2000, will be public once all the DNA identifications of the victims.
The researchers recovered on Friday one of the two black boxes of the plane, the flight data recorder, and continued on Saturday to search the site to find the second, the cabin conversations recorder.
Source: BFM TV
