(14 Jun 2025)
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Ahmedabad, India – 14 June 2025
1. Various of search and rescue workers next to wreckage of plane
2. Wide of excavator moving towards crash site
3. Excavator digging at crash site
4. Excavator moving towards crash site
5. Search and rescue worker sitting on broken wall at crash site
6. Ambulance with sirens blaring driving away
7. Plane flying over crash site
8. Damaged building
9. Police by barricades at crash site
10. Animal ambulance arriving at crash site
11. Workers walking away from crash site
12. Various exteriors of mortuary complex inside Civil Hospital
13. Various of ambulance waiting at hospital
14. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Rajneesh Patel, official at Ahmedabad Civil Hospital:
“The unfortunate event of the Air India crash, from which we had DNA matches for nine people, now we have two more matches. We have had 11 DNA matches until now. We have handed over the mortal remains of one out of these 11 people, we will give two more today.”
15. Coffins arriving at hospital on truck
16. Coffins being unloaded from truck
17. Water bottles and buttermilk bottles in tub to be served to visitors and media personnel waiting at hospital
18. Mid of man taking bottles from tub
19. Mid of containers of cold water on truck
20. Man pouring cold water into container
21. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Taufiq Mansoori, social worker:
“Thanks to God, we have been present here since the first day. We helped take out many bodies from the debris. We also arranged food, water, buttermilk, accommodation and ambulances for the relatives of victims.”
22. Ambulance waiting at hospital
STORYLINE:
Search and recovery teams continued scouring the site of one of India’s worst aviation disasters for a third day on Saturday after the Air India flight crashed and killed at least 270 people in Gujarat state, officials said.
The London-bound Boeing 787 struck a medical college hostel in a residential area of the northwestern city of Ahmedabad minutes after takeoff Thursday, killing 241 people on board and at least 29 on the ground. One passenger survived.
Recovery teams working until late Friday found at least 25 more bodies in the debris, officials said.
Hundreds of relatives of the crash victims have provided DNA samples at the Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad where the remains of those killed have been taken.
Most bodies were charred or mutilated, making them unrecognizable.
Some relatives expressed frustration Saturday that the process was taking too long.
Authorities say it normally takes up to 72 hours to complete DNA matching and they are expediting the process.
Social workers were seen providing visitors and relatives of victims with cold water and food to withstand the intense heat as they waited for news.
Investigators on Friday recovered the plane’s digital flight data recorder, or the black box, which was recovered from a rooftop near the crash site and likely will lead to clues about the cause of the accident.
India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau said it had started working with “full force” to extract the data.
AP video by Shonal Ganguly and Piyush Nagpal
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