Wait for bodies deepens pain of families after Air India crash

For Mine Jignesh, 72 hours feel like eternity.

From Thursday night, G. Jigshsh and his family work in Ahmedabad in Ahmedabad, trying to find details of their 22-year-old niece – one of 242 passengers who died in the air-made aircraft crash earlier that day.

The authorities told him that he would return his niece’s body in 72 hours who were usually needed to complete the matching DNA – ending on Sunday.

But he was told on Saturday that it might take longer because officials still look for bodies from the collision place, he claimed.

“When people are still missing, how can I finish the DNA process until tomorrow? What if there are no nieces left? Waiting kills us,” he said.

Officials refused to comment on the claim of G. Jignese, but the Fire Department officer and the police official told the BBC in an anonymity that was still ongoing the remnants of passengers.

Patel, an additional supervisor of the Civil Hospital, said on Saturday that 11 victims have been identified on their DNA samples so far, adding their families to be informed.

The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner Dreamliner, who was on his way to the Gatwick Airport, crashed and broke out in a fiery ball, soon after he took off from Ahmedabad’s airport, in what is in the worst air disaster India

Only one of 242 passengers and crews on board survived. At least eight others were killed as the aircraft hit the Hostel of the Faculty of Medicine when it fell on a densely populated residential area near the airport.

Things have moved quickly since.

The Indian government ordered an investigation at a high level of incident and ordered all Boeing 787s, which manage local carriers to be reviewed.

Although the reason of the collision remains unknown, the Air Force in the country said to look at it in all possible causes of accidents, also bringing foreign air experts to help in the investigation.

Back to the hospital, doctors are racing to complete the sampling of the victims of victims so that they can start returning bodies to their families.

But for families like G. Jignesh, time passes in towing conditions.

Officials discussed how extremely challenged the process of identification bodies – and is performed in small series – because most residues are endangered outside recognition.

“There is no volume here – we must ensure that each family gets the right body,” HP Sanghvi, director of the Directorate for Forensic Sciences in Gandhinagar. “But DNA identification is the process of long-lasting weather. In addition, given the catastrophe scale, there is also the possibility that DNA is several passengers damaged due to extremely high explosion temperature.”

Jaishankar Pillai, a forensic dentist in the hospital, told reporters that his team was trying to collect the dental records from coal bodies, because it could be the only source of DNA.

Waiting is out of agonization for families, many of which refused to talk to the media, saying they just want to return home with “everything left of their loved ones.”

“We are unable to say anything. The words immediately decay us,” woman, who waited with three members of her family outside the autopsy, as she quickly slipped into her car.

Meanwhile, officials at the Faculty of Medicine BJ began following several wards of hostels, near which aircraft hit. So far, four departments are – including a hostel canteen, a collision place – completely discharged.

But students living in other nearby wings of the hostel also began to leave.

“In one of the departments, only three people remain back to their homes. They will soon go there, but alone, and sitting there, all, the memory of what happened,” their faculty and he wanted to remain anonymous.

But between the faculties and the hospital – in the huge expanse of this city, more than seven million people – there are many others who are also from tragedy.

The last Kalavadia card heard about his brother Mahesh on Thursday, about 30 minutes before the fall.

It was a phone call Mahesh made his wife: “I come home,” he told her.

She never heard from him again.

The Music Producer in the Gujarati Mahesh film industry was on his return home from work and crossed the area when the plane was injured and crashed into buildings.

Mr. Kalavadia told the BBC that the last location of his brother before his phone became unavailable were only a few hundred meters from the BJ Medical College.

The family has submitted the police appeal since and has given countless visits to the Civil Hospital. So far, they have not found anything.

“Hospital told us they didn’t have my brother’s record. We also tried to follow his scooter, but nothing came from it,” said Mr. Kalavadia.

“Like she disappeared into thin air.”

At the press conference on Saturday, the Secretary of Aviation Civil Ma SK S Sinha admitted that the last two days was “very difficult”, but she assured the investigation smoothly and in the right direction.

But Mr. Kalavadia wondered whether any of these queries would be in the plane crash, victims and wider – helped to find their brother, dead or alive.

“We don’t know the answer, but we can hope that it is positive, I guess,” he said.

Return to the Civil Hospital, the wait and further persecution of the family.

When is the BBC Last met Imtyiyaz but Over Thursday night, he was still in denying that his family – his brother cut together with his wife and two children – he could die in a crash.

But on Saturday he looked closer to “accepting the truth.”

“With just a few hours, we’re trying to decide what to be: We will bury him here, or in the UK, where the family family of his wife,” he said.

“For me, that doesn’t have the difference you know?” He continued, “because he left, from ash to dust and back to God.”

Additional reporting of Anthriksha Pathania in Ahmedabad