Nine days after the Ahmedabad plane crash, the process to identify several victims is still under way as the authorities have asked eight families to submit the DNA sample of another relative as the previous ones failed to match.
The Ahmedabad-based filmmaker Mahesh Jirawala, was reported missing following the June 12 air crash. The police said that the matching of DNA samples confirmed that he died in the catastrophe, following which his mortal remains were handed over to his family. Jirawala, 34, was passing by from the area on his two-wheeler just when the London-bound plane plunged into a hostel complex, he said.
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In Maharashtra, relatives and friends gave an emotional farewell to Deepak Pathak and Irfan Shaikh — two crew members of the ill-fated flight — at Badlapur in Thane district and in Pimpri-Chinchwad near Pune city respectively.
The London-bound Air India flight AI-171 carrying 242 passengers and crew members crashed in Ahmedabad moments after it took off from the city airport last Thursday, killing all but one on board, and 29 on the ground as the aircraft smashed into a medical complex in the Meghaninagar area.
