Air India flight AI171, a Boeing 787-8 carrying 242 people, crashed after taking off from Ahmedabad on its way to London.

An Air India passenger plane carrying more than 200 people crashed after taking off from an airport in the Indian city of Ahmedabad on Thursday.

Three days after the crash, only 35 bodies had been handed over to relatives from an overall official death toll of 270.

Air India has confirmed that one passenger survived Thursday's airplane crash, which had 242 passengers and crew members on board.

Seven people have died in a helicopter crash in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand. According to the BBC, a helicopter carrying visitors to a number of Hindu religious pilgrimage sites in the Himalayan mountains crashed on Sunday, June 15, during what would have been a 10-minute flight.

Of the 270 dead, 241 were passengers and cabin crew on the London-bound flight. The remaining were killed when the plane crashed into a college hostel

Amid the global attention that followed the Indian plane crash where about 270 people died, a lawmaker has shared how the pilot was days away from quitting.

A father of two who had traveled from the U.K. to India to spread his wife's ashes died in the Air India crash on June 12, leaving the couple's two daughters, ages 4 and 8, orphaned. Arjun Patoliya, 37,