RT-Engels: 14-06-2025,
The UK-bound flight crashed seconds after take-off from Ahmedabad, killing all but one of 242 passengers
The death toll from the Air India crash on Thursday has risen to 270, making it one of the deadliest disasters of its kind in the country’s history. The plane slammed into a medical college dormitory, leaving one survivor from the flight.
Search and rescue workers recovered more bodies from the site late Friday, pushing the death toll higher, officials told media on Saturday. The authorities had earlier put the body count at 265.
“Around 270 bodies have been brought to the civil hospital so far from the plane crash site,” Dr. Dhaval Gamet at the Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad told reporters on Saturday.
He added that the only survivor was still under observation for some of his wounds. In an interview with India’s public broadcaster Doodarshan on Saturday, the survivor, 40-year-old UK national of Indian origin Ramesh Vishwashkumar said he “jumped out” of the plans seconds after it crashed when he realized there was some space near his seat. He said he couldn’t believe he’d made it out of the burning plane alive, even as he saw people dying around him.
Families of the victims are still waiting to receive the bodies of their loved ones. A relative of several passengers who are believed to have died in the crash told RT on Friday that he had given his blood for DNA profiling upon arrival in Ahmedabad,