Air India plane crash: Toll mounts to 274; 33 on-ground deaths confirmed

Friday, Jun 13, 2025 8:04 pm ET1min read

Salvage teams scouring the debris of flight AI 171 found the black box of the crashed 787-8 Dreamliner and 29 more bodies on Friday, taking the toll to 274 and expanding the scale of the worst single-aircraft disaster in the history of Indian aviation. The casualty count increasing beyond the 241 passengers and crew confirmed dead in the crash suggested that the other 33 victims were likely people on the campus of Ahmedabad's BJ Medical College - possibly doctors, their family members, medical students, workers and others in the Meghaninagar neighbourhood.

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