An Air India passenger plane carrying more than 200 people crashed after taking off from an airport in the Indian city of Ahmedabad on Thursday.

The co-pilot of the Air India flight AI171, which crashed into a medical college in Ahmedabad, western India, on Monday morning, mistakenly pulled the plane's wing flaps instead of retracting the landing gear,

Elcina Alpesh Makwana, 41, was one of at least 270 people who were killed in the Air India crash. Her body was released to her family and she has now been buried

Three days after the crash, only 35 bodies had been handed over to relatives from an overall official death toll of 270.

An Air India plane with more than 200 people on board crashed near the airport in India's city of Ahmedabad, the airline and police officials said.

Seven people have died in a helicopter crash in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand. According to the BBC, a helicopter carrying visitors to a number of Hindu religious pilgrimage sites in the Himalayan mountains crashed on Sunday, June 15, during what would have been a 10-minute flight.

The only survivor of Air India Flight 171 was born on a tropical island dotted with palm trees and fishing boats. So were 14 passengers who died in the crash.

Elcina Alpesh Makwana, 41, was one of the 270 people who died when the Air India flight AI171 to Gatwick went down shortly after take-off from Ahmedabad airport in India

Close on the heels of the mishap involving an Air India flight from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick, a domestic flight of the airline carrying 168 passengers developed a technical issue immediately after take-off from Delhi to Vadodara on Sunday evening.