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Three days after the crash, only 35 bodies had been handed over to relatives from an overall official death toll of 270.
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.
The only survivor of Air India Flight 171 was born on a tropical island dotted with palm trees and fishing boats. So were 14 passengers who died in the crash.
An airplane crashed in India’s northwestern city of Ahmedabad in Gujarat state on Thursday, news agency the Press Trust of India reported. Air India said the crashed aircraft is Flight AI171, a passenger flight to London Gatwick airport.
An Air India flight had to make an emergency landing following reports of a bomb threat one day after hundreds died in a fatal crash involving one of the airline's planes.