Death toll in Air India plane crash rises to 270
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Medical students who survived when an Air India plane crashed into their hostel in Ahmedabad say their first reaction was to help treat the injured.
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,
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Asian News International on MSNAir India crash victim Ex-Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani laid to rest with state honours in Rajkot, GujaratFormer Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani's last rites begin with state honours in Rajkot. He died in the Air India Plane Crash that occurred on June 12.
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.
A father of two who had traveled from the U.K. to India to spread his wife's ashes died in the Air India crash on June 12, leaving the couple's two daughters, ages 4 and 8, orphaned. Arjun Patoliya, 37,
An Air India flight was forced to turn around and return to Hong Kong after an unspecified technical issue was discovered with the aircraft. The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner—the same craft involved in last week’s devastating crash in Ahmedabad which killed over 270 people—was an hour into a flight to New Delhi when the pilot suspected a problem and turned around to avoid a repeat of the tragedy.