At least 270 died when the Air India flight crashed into the campus of a medical college in Ahmedabad shortly after takeoff on Thursday. Only one passenger among the 242 aboard survived. At least 29 others on the ground, including five medical students inside the hostel, were also killed.

The Air India Flight 171 crash in Ahmedabad, which claimed 241 lives, may lead to one of the largest aviation insurance payouts in history—estimated at $475 million. Experts warn the disaster could drive up aviation insurance premiums and impact global reinsurers.

The Air India flight fell from the sky on Thursday and killed at least 270 people in Gujarat state, officials said Saturday.

Indian authorities have started handing over remains of the victims of one of India’s worst aviation disasters after identifying some through DNA tests.

A veteran commercial airline pilot said he may have found a “total game-changer” in what led to the doomed Air India Boeing 787 to crash after analyzing new video.

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

Abdhi Patel had traveled to India to care for her mother, but was "very nervous" to leave her young son for two weeks, Atif Karim, Patel's colleague at Zone Beauty Studio in Northampton, England, told The Independent. Karim said that Patel, 40, felt a "sense of duty" to travel to India, but "you could tell it was weighing on her."

The Boeing 777-200 LR aircraft developed a snag in its left engine after passengers boarded the flight and the passengers were asked to deplane