Ahmedabad: The last human toll stands on 260 people in the Air India flight 171 tragedy, announced by officials in Gujarat, Boeing 787 crashed immediately after the tech-off from the city’s only airport in the most deadly aviation incident in the country by Boeing 787.
Last death toll of 260 – consisting of 241 passengers and crew members, who are on the plane and 19 people are killed on the ground – 270 lower than the early estimates of lethal.
Additional Chief Secretary of Health and Family Welfare, Dhananjay Dwivedi told HT, “The plane crash is at 260. We will not reveal the victim identity. All bodies have been recovered and identified, with all the mortal remains of them, they are assigned to their families.”
The head of Ahmedabad Civil Hospital, Dr. Rakesh Joshi told HT that all remains were identified and verified using DNA matching and facial identity. “The last body, of a passenger, was identified using the DNA match on Friday night,” Joshi said.
London-bound Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crashed from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport on June 12, to destroy parts of the building and explode in a flames at a medical college hostel complex about 30 seconds.
Among the victims were junior doctors, employees in the hospital premises and people on the road below. A passenger, described as a possible migration, went out of the accident, when he was thrown beyond the burning debris.
The effect of the accident and subsequent infrano means that the remains of most of the victims were unfamiliar with the number of 19 casualties on the ground, requiring DNA samples from family members to help the authorities identify.
“Four people were brought alive, but their injuries were succumbed during treatment. In all, 71 people were injured and hospitalized, most of whom were treated at Ahmedabad Civil Hospital and in Zeds Hospital, KD Hospital and Apollo Hospital. 67 of these have been discharged from medical facilities,” said Dwldi.
An official awareness about development said that the last DNA was 32 -year -old Anil Khimani from Bhuj in Milan Kutch, saying that the situation of those people is called stable.
In 260 deaths, 254 victims were identified through DNA testing and through the identity of the remaining face. Experts stated that the DNA identification process, which usually takes months, was completed in about two weeks.
A total of 318 body parts were recovered from the accident site in Meghaninagar, a senior police officer said, asked not to be named. A forensic experts working on cases said that the challenge was such that one of the later living remains came out as a bird – a confirmation that came only after repeated attempts to remove information from a deteriorating sample, once a match was not thrown.
Dr, Head of the Center of Excellence Center at DNA Forensic at NFSU. Bhargava Patel said that his team of 32 scientists and PhD scholars processed more than 150 DNA samples from the crash victims. DNA samples of 250 relatives were collected at Ahmedabad Forensic Science Laboratory, while FSL was matched in Gandhinagar and NFSU.
Bodies in many states and countries have been renamed, the largest number of 73 with Ahmedabad, followed by Anand 29 and Vadodara 24. Thirteen bodies were sent to the United Kingdom.
According to flight tracking data, the aircraft reached a height of 625 feet local time at 1:39 pm and before losing the signal. The crew released the loss of power to the reporting of the Meedy Call and insisted after less than a minute of the takeoff.
The accident marked Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner’s first fatal accident and loss of hull since the accident entered the aircraft in 2011. It represents India’s most deadly aviation disaster since the 1996 Charkhi Dadri Mid-Air collision.
India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau is leading the investigation with the help of the US National Transport Safety Board and British investigators. Both flight data recorders have been recovered from the accident site.
