Air India Flight 171 was airborne for less than 40 seconds before it plunged into a densely-populated neighbourhood in AhmedabadInvestigators now face the grim task of sifting through the wreckage and decoding the cockpit voice and flight data recorders of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner to piece together what went catastrophically wrongAgainst the backdrop of the London-bound plane tragedy,

There is no evidence that the sole survivor of the Air India crash that killed 260 people in June, Viswashkumar Ramesh, was arrested by police shortly after the incident, contrary to posts shared on social media.

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.