The Citizen Times Delhi - June 15, 2025

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Death toll in AI plane crash touches 270,
Centre forms high-level panel to find causes

Ahmedabad/New
Delhi, Jun 14:The death
toll in the London-bound
Air India plane crash in
Ahmedabad rose to 270 on
Saturday even as the
Centre set up a high-level
multi-disciplinary panel
headed by the Union home
secretary to examine the
causes that led to the disas
ter.As investigators pore
over wreckage at the BJ
Medical College hostel and
canteen complex for clues
after the crash of the
Boeing 787-8
Dreamliner(AI171) on
Thursday, Civil Aviation
Minister K Rammohan
Naidu said aviation regula
tor DGCA has ordered
"extended surveillance" for
the Tata-owned airline's
Boeing 787 series planes.
"Around 270 bodies have
been brought to the
Ahmedabad Civil Hospital
so far from the plane crash
site," President of Junior
Doctors association of BJ
Medical College, Dr
Dhaval Gameti, said. The
death toll in the country's
worst ever air disaster in
three decades was earl