All but one of the 242 people on board the London-bound flight died when it crashed into a residential area in Ahmedabad shortly after take-off.

Just yesterday at Ahmedabad airport, Sangeeta Gauswami clung tightly to her only child, her heart swelling with pride as she saw off her 19-year-old son from their home in the western Indian state of Gujarat,

Investigators on Friday searched the site of one of India’s worst aviation disasters, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with the lone surviving passenger a day after an Air India plane split apart and fell from the sky,

Arjun Patolia, who recently performed his wife's last rites in Gujarat, boarded Air India flight AI-171 to reunite with his daughters. Tragically, the flight crashed shortly after takeoff.

A nurse from Portsmouth is confirmed among the fatalities on the Boeing 787-8 aircraft which crashed less than a minute after take off.

By evening, the badly damaged corridors stood silent. Backpacks and half-eaten meals lay abandoned on tables where students had fled. The air was still thick with smoke, sirens, and the weight of what had just unfolded.