India Mourns Ahmedabad Air India Plane Crash
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The Air India flight fell from the sky on Thursday and killed at least 270 people in Gujarat state, officials said Saturday.
The Air India plane that crashed in Ahmedabad on June 12 was a Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft. As per a report, Air India had 34 Boeing 787 airframes in its fleet before the crash.
Three days after the crash, only 35 bodies had been handed over to relatives from an overall official death toll of 270.
Rupani was among the 242 people aboard the doomed Flight AI171 that took off from the Ahmedabad airport on June 12 and was en route to London's Gatwick airport. The BJP leader was on his way to meet his daughter in the British capital.
Gujarat ex-CM Vijay Rupani was given a 21-gun salute. Home Minister Amit Shah also attended the funeral, which was held at Rajkot, Gujarat on Monday. Vijay Rupani was one of the 242 people on board the ill-fated Air India AI171 aircraft,