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Air India plane crash: Helpdesks established for insurance and compensatio
Updated : 9 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Collectors of the respective districts have reached out to the families of the victims of the plane crash. To ensure the smooth and timely disbursement of insurance and compensation claims to the legal heirs, district-level accounting officers and other designated officials have been appoint
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Air India plane crash: Streamlined DNA verification at Ahmedabad Civil Hos
Updated : 9 months, 2 weeks ago IST
At Kaushoti Bhavan in D Block, the process begins with meticulous DNA sampling and verification, a significant improvement over older, less organised documentation methods. This step ensures accurate identification of the deceased before further procedures are initiated.
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Air India plane crash: Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan to chair high-lev
Updated : 9 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Key attendees will include the Civil Aviation Secretary, a representative from the Gujarat government, officials from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security, and other relevant departments and agencies, they said.
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Air India plane crash: 45 DNA matches, Vijay Rupani's last rites in Rajkot
Updated : 9 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The London-bound Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, carrying 242 passengers and crew, crashed and rammed into a doctor's hostel shortly after taking off from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport on June 12.
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Air India plane crash: 24x7 DNA sampling-to-matching process underway at F
Updated : 9 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The FSL director stated that the process, from sampling of the deceased passengers' family members to DNA matching, is being carried out continuously for 24 hours. Providing insights into the DNA profiling and matching process, he explained that there are primarily two methods of obtaining D
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Vijay Rupani among Air India plane crash victims, confirms DNA match: Guja
Updated : 9 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Gujarat Home Minister Harsh Sanghavi on Sunday said that former Chief Minister Vijay Rupani was among those who died in the tragic Air India flight AI-171 crash in Ahmedabad. His identity was confirmed through DNA matching.
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Air India Express Kolkata-Hindon flight delayed due to "snag"
Updated : 9 months, 2 weeks ago IST
A technical snag delayed Air India Express's Kolkata-Hindon flight. Passengers were offered free rescheduling or full refunds. The airline apologised for the inconvenience, ensuring the flight operated after resolving the issue.
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AI 171 crash: 22 more DNA samples of victims matched, says Gujarat ministe
Updated : 9 months, 2 weeks ago IST
"Update as of 1.00 pm- From 9 PM last night to 1 PM today, our teams have worked tirelessly to match DNA samples. We are pleased to report that an additional 22 DNA samples have been matched, bringing the total to 42 matched DNA samples so far," Sanghavi said in a post on X.
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AI-171 crash: Single-window system for issuing death certificates, says Ah
Updated : 9 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Ahmedabad Municipal Commissioner Banchha Nidhi Pani on Saturday said the administration had arranged for the death certificates of those who died in the Air India plane crash to be issued directly at the hospital, sparing grieving families the need to visit multiple offices.
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Road accidents are more common than air accidents: Aviation expert Subhash
Updated : 9 months, 2 weeks ago IST
He said that life has to go on and people should not stop travelling. The aviation expert added that the flight involved in the AI 171 plane crash first came from Paris, and later its security check was done in Delhi. Goyal asserted that no pilot or cabin crew would sit in the flight if they
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"Family is completely devastated": AI 171 plane crash victim's relative
Updated : 9 months, 2 weeks ago IST
"Our family is completely devastated. We had never imagined that she would go away in this manner and never return... There was a lot of support from the government... As soon as the DNA match happened, we got a call from them saying that they would hand over my aunt's body"
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Last rites of AI-171 plane crash victim Kalpana Prajapati performed in Vad
Updated : 9 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Last rites of Kalpana Prajapati, who died in the Air India-171 plane crash, were performed in Vadodara, Gujarat, on Sunday.
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