Death toll rises to 270 as grieving families wait for bodies of loved ones - Grieving family members wait outside Ahmedabad hospital to collect bodies of loved ones killed in the Gatwick-bound flight

The Air India crash toll has hit 270, with grieving families growing frustrated over delays in releasing bodies of relatives

An early focus of the probe includes a possible loss or reduction of thrust.

Police in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad said more than 240 people were killed on Thursday when an Air India plane bound for London with 242 people on board crashed on to a medical college hostel, revising an earlier death toll.

Grieving families waited today for news after one of the deadliest air disasters in decades, with the toll rising to 279 people killed in the

Police in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad said more than 240 people were killed on Thursday when an Air India plane bound for London with 242 people on board crashed on to a medical college hostel,

The death toll from the Air India Flight 171 crash rose to 274 on Saturday after salvage teams discovered more bodies in the wreckage of a medical college hostel in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad.