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An Air India plane bound for London Gatwick Airport crashed shortly after take-off on June 12 in Ahmedabad, western India. Flight AI171 was carrying 242 people, including 169 Indian nationals, 53 Britons,
Three days after the crash, only 35 bodies had been handed over to relatives from an overall official death toll of 270.
On June 12, the London-bound aircraft crashed into the nearby campus of a medical college in Meghani Nagar area and burst into flames, moments after it took off from the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad.
An Air India plane with more than 200 people on board crashed near the airport in India's city of Ahmedabad, the airline and police officials said.
A black box has been found at the site of the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad, India's civil aviation minister said on Friday. The flight data recorder was recovered within 28 hours by India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB),