The search and recovery teams continued to tour the site of one of the worst aviation disasters of India for the third day after the Air India flight fell from the sky and killed at least 270 people in the state of Gujarat, authorities said on Saturday.
The Boeing 787 destined for London hit a hostel of the University of Medicine in a residential area of the northwest city of Ahmedabad, minutes after Thursday, killing 241 people on board and at least 29 on the ground. A passenger survived.
The recovery teams that work until Friday night found at least 25 more bodies in the debris, authorities said.
Dr. Dhaval Gameti at the Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad told The Associated Press that the installation had received 270 bodies, adding that the only surviving passenger was still under observation for some of his wounds.
“He is going very well and will be ready to be discharged in the short term,” Gameti said on Saturday.
Hundreds of relatives from accident victims have provided DNA samples in the hospital. Most of the bodies were carbonized or mutilated, making them unrecognizable.
Some relatives expressed their frustration on Saturday that the process was taking too long. The authorities say that it normally takes up to 72 hours to complete the DNA coincidence and are accelerating the process.
“Where are my children? Did you recover them?” Rafiq Abdullah asked, whose nephew, daughter -in -law and two grandchildren were on the flight. “I will have to ask questions. The government is not answering these questions.”
Another relative persistently asked the hospital staff when his relative’s body would be delivered to the family for the last rites.
“Give us the body,” the relative insisted.
Together with formal investigation, the Indian government says it has formed a high -level multidisciplinary committee to examine the causes that lead to the accident.
The Committee will focus on formulating procedures to prevent and manage aircraft emergencies in the future and “it will not be a substitute for other consultations made by relevant organizations,” said the Ministry of Civil Aviation in a statement.
The authorities have begun to inspect the entire fleet of Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft, the Minister of Civil Aviation of India, Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu, said Saturday in New Delhi in his first informative news session from Thursday’s accident.
Eight of the 34 Dreamliner aircraft in India have already undergone an inspection, Kinjarapu said, added that the remaining plane will be examined with “immediate urgency.”
The government anxiously awaits the results of the accident investigation by the aircraft accident investigation office and all necessary measures will be taken without hesitation, said Kinjarapu.
The researchers recovered on Friday the digital flight recorder of the plane, or the black box, which recovered from a roof near the accident site and will probably lead to clues about the cause of the accident.
The Indian aircraft accident office said he had started working with “all force” to extract the data.
The device is expected to reveal information about the engine and control configuration, while the voice recorder will provide cabin conversations, said Paul Fromme, a mechanical engineer from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers based in the United Kingdom.
The Aviation Security Consultant Jeff Guzzetti, former accident investigator of the US National Transportation Security Board. UU. And the Federal Aviation Administration said that researchers should be able to answer some important questions about what the accident caused as soon as next week, provided that the flight data recorder is in good shape.
It is likely that the researchers are watching if the wing fins were established correctly, the engine lost energy, the alarms shot inside the cabin and if the crew of the plane correctly recorded information on the exterior hot temperature and the weight of the fuel and the passengers, Guzzetti said.
Data errors could result in the wing fins being incorrectly established, he said.
The Air India accident on Thursday involved a 12 -year -old Boeing 787. Boeing aircraft have been full of security problems in other types of airplanes.
There are currently around 1,200 of the 787 Dreamliner planes worldwide and this was the first fatal accident in 16 years of operation, according to experts.
