Indian authorities have revised the death toll of the flight AI171 crash downwards because some remains had been inadvertently counted twice, they said.
One of two black boxes from the Boeing 787 Dreamliner that crashed moments after taking off from Ahmedabad in Gujarat on its flight to London Gatwick airport has been recovered, Reuters has reported. Investigators continue to scour the crash site and surrounding buildings over 24 hours after the deadly crash as they seek further human remains and aircraft parts that will form part of their inquiry into why the aircraft fell out of the sky less than a minute after take-off.
While the presumed death toll steadily climbed on Thursday, it has now been revised downward twice. In the first instance, the
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