As the debris-mashmhan operation and significant black box search continues, Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Ahmedabad on Friday morning, to review the situation on the site where a London-Bound Air India plane took off a medical college campus near the moments of Ahmedabad Airport after a London-Bound Air India plane takeoff.
PM’s visit comes one day after one of the worst aviation disaster in the country and the world’s first Boeing 787 Dreamliner was included. The flight included a total of 242 people as well as two pilots and 10 cabin crew members at 1:38 pm.
Only one person survived miraculously. Vishwas Kumar Ramesh (39), a British National of Indian origin, was seated in ’11A ‘. He is currently receiving medical treatment at Ahmedabad Civil Hospital.
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PM Modi goes to the crash site, loan survivor and others are injured
On Friday morning, Prime Minister Narendra Modi landed at Ahmedabad Airport and went to Air India Plain Crash Site. During 20 minutes of inspection, he was accompanied by other people along with Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel and Union Civil Aviation Minister Ker Naidu.
The PM also visited Ahmedabad Civil Hospital to meet the injured persons receiving treatment at the city’s civil hospital. He also met the only survivor of Vishwas Kumar Ramesh (39), a British citizen of Indian origin, tragic accident.
After going to the accident site near Ahmedabad Airport this morning, Prime Minister Narendra Modi reiterated his condolence message at a post on X, “such a sudden, heart -wrenching way of life”.
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Before PM’s visit, Amit Shah in Ahmedabad: What he said
A few hours after the deadly accident, Union Home Minister Amit Shah was in Ahmedabad on Thursday evening. After visiting the only survivor in the hospital, He said that the temperature in Air India plane was so high There was no chance to save people due to burning fuel.
Shah said, “There was 1.25 lakh liters of fuel inside the aircraft and caught fire, so it was impossible to save anyone.” He said that DNA test was going on to confirm the identity of the victims and the Ministry of Civil Aviation has launched an investigation.
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Status checks: Operation to clean the debris at the accident site
An official told the news agency that the operation of cleaning the site of the accident, including removing the debris from Air India aircraft, was in the final stages till Friday morning. PTI.
Even dogs and birds on the site could not avoid heavy temperature rise from fuel fire after accident, he said.
A forensic team also arrived and started work at the accident site on Friday morning
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Still search for black box
Until late Thursday, the search for the Boeing 787-8 aircraft’s black box-flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder was on-for the ongoing investigation due to the event.
Greg Fath, a former senior air security investigator with the US National Transport Safety Board (NTSB), said that if he was leading the investigation, it would be his top priority to recover the black box.
“First of all, of course, the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder will have to be recovered. This investigation will give the team the most reliable information to determine this direction – whether it is pointing to a combination of an aircraft, a pilot issue, or both. So it would be a highest priority” They told Indian Express.
Most aircraft require two black boxes – Cockpit Voice Records (CVR) and flight data recorder (FDR) – which records information about a flight.
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Air India announced ‘support centers of friends and relatives’ in 4 cities
The airline said in a statement on Friday that Air India has set up airports assistance centers for relatives and friends of Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Delhi and Gatwick (London) airports. These centers are facilitating the visit of family members of Ahmedabad.
Passenger hotline number for callers within India: 1800 5691 444
Calling out of India: +91 8062779200
Tata -owned airlines, at the request of the editors, asked the media coursans not to dial the hotline numbers dedicated to help the families of the victims.
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When will the bodies of the victims be handed over to the families?
The bodies of 241 deceased in the tragic aircraft accident of Ahmedabad-London Gatvik Air India will be handed over to the families after DNA testing to confirm their identity.
“Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) and National Forensic Sciences University (NFSU) of Gujarat will jointly complete the DNA test in the shortest possible time, after which the dead body will be handed over to their families,” Amit Shah said after the accident on Thursday afternoon.
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There is a possibility of a breakdown of compensation to the families of the victims
Air India’s Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner was insured, so on Thursday afternoon at Ahmedabad Airport, the tragic accident will not have any financial impact on the Tatas who owns the airline, The Indian Express Have you learnt.
242 passengers who lost their lives in the accident are expected to get suitable compensation from insurance companies. According to the Montreal Convention Treaty, Air India will have to pay compensation of about Rs 1.5 crore to the families of the victims. The Tata Group also announced Rs 1 crore to the families.
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Congress party says deaths in accident, ‘collective pain, sorrow’ with the nation
On behalf of the Congress, the party’s general secretary, in-charge of communication, expressed condolences to the families of the victims killed in the Ahmedabad-London Air India flight crash.
In a post on X, Ramesh wrote: “The Indian National Congress expresses its deepest condolences to all families, which is affected by the AI -171 accident and so devastating.” He said that the party is involved in the country in “collective pain and sorrow”. “We had expected and prayed that the deadly has been awaited for confirmation. Confirmation is Grim News and in the nation’s collective suffering and sorrow over the most unfortunate and shocking tragedy in the nation,” his post read.
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