Air India Plane Crash: DNA Testing Chaos Mounts After 2 Heads Found in One Body Bag; Airline Issues Statement

‘They were inseparable’: family’s anguish at wait to bring Air India victims home

Relatives of Pooja and Harshit Patel, who were visiting from Leicester, want to cremate them together but have faced painful wait for identificationIn the ramshackle, cramped lanes of Ambika Nagar in the Indian city of Gujarat, everyone spoke of Pooja and Harshit Patel with pride. The couple had done what none of their relatives or neighbours had managed to achieve before; they had moved abroad, settling among the thriving Gujarati diaspora comm…

Air India plane crash: DNA testing chaos mounts after 2 heads found in one body bag; Airline issues statement

Air India plane crash: In one case, forensic teams, reportedly have to repeat the 72-hour-long DNA testing procedure after two heads of different victims were found in one body bag

Heat of Air India Crash Hinders DNA Identification, Agonizing Relatives

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

Families of Air India plane crash victims begin to receive bodies

Only one passenger has so far survived the crash of a Boeing Air India flight on Thursday in the city of Ahmedabad. With victims difficult to identify, families have been slow to receive their relatives' bodies for burial.

Leicester families’ frantic search after Air India crash

Relatives described scenes of confusion

Vijay Rupani's DNA Matches With His Remains Found At Crash Site

Vijay Rupani's DNA matches with his remains found at Ahmedabad crash site, say sources