US EditionFamilies of British Air India crash victims were ‘sent wrong bodies’
UNITED KINGDOM, JUL 23 – At least two British families received misidentified or mixed remains after Air India Flight 171 crash, with DNA verification revealing errors during repatriation, officials said.
- On June 12, flight 171, a Boeing Dreamliner, crashed shortly after departing Ahmedabad, killing 261 people.
- Some remains were burnt or fragmented, requiring DNA and dental records for identification, and families received remains in plastic containers rather than coffins from Ahmedabad’s Civil Hospital.
- In repatriation errors, multiple victims’ remains were ‘commingled’ in the same casket, British families were sent the wrong bodies, and at least two families received wrong or mixed remains.
- During inquiries, inquests into 12 deaths were opened and adjourned on July 10 by Dr Fiona Wilcox, high-level investigations have been launched in London and India, and Keir Starmer will discuss with Narendra Modi this week.
- Amid ongoing distress, the UK government acknowledged they are going through an `extremely distressing time`, a spokesman said formal identification is a matter for Indian authorities, and affected families have contacted MPs, the Foreign Office and top officials demanding accountability.
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Authorities in India sent the wrong remains to some British families whose loved ones were killed in a plane crash last month, their lawyer has claimed, as relatives reckoned with the human cost of the world's deadliest aviation accident in a decade.At least two UK nationals were discovered to have been misidentified after they were repatriated, according to James Healy-Pratt, an international aviation lawyer who is representing some of the Brit…
Some Air India victims’ families in UK were sent wrong remains, lawyer says
(CNN) — Authorities in India sent the wrong remains to some British families whose loved ones were killed in a plane crash last month, their lawyer has claimed, as relatives reckoned with the human cost of the world’s deadliest aviation…
The repatriation of the remains of the victims of the Air India flight accident, which occurred on 12 June, has sparked the outrage of several British families, who claim to have received wrong bodies or mixed remains. The fault has been reported by lawyer James Healy Pratt, who represents about twenty affected families in the United Kingdom. The accident, in which a Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashed shortly after taking off from the Indian city of …
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