Air India, plane crash
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The Parmar family from Rakhiyana in Ahmedabad district suffered the loss of two members in the 12 June Air India plane crash, one of India's deadliest aviation disasters in recent history. Bhogilal Parmar, 57, and his wife Hansa, 55, were among the 241 victims of the Boeing Dreamliner crash.
The Air India plane crash resulted in one of the deadliest aircraft crashes in the world, claiming the lives of 241 souls on board and many others on the ground, with only one survivor successfully walking out of the accident scene.
As anguished families wait for the return of their loved ones’ remains, tensions are mounting over the slow pace of DNA identification following the deadly Air India crash. More than three days on, only a fraction of the victims have been identified, and grief is giving way to anger, reports Namita Singh from Ahmedabad