Families received wrong remains of Air India crash victims – lawyer

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23 Jul, 2025 07:48 PM2 mins to read

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Relatives carry the coffin of a victim of the Air India flight crash during a funeral ceremony in Ahmedabad. Photo / Basit Zargar, AFP

Relatives of a British victim killed in last month’s Air India crash received a casket that contained mixed remains, a lawyer representing several families and UK media has said.

The family of a separate victim received the remains of another person, according to James Healy-Pratt, who is representing 20 British
families who lost loved ones in the disaster.

A total of 241 people on board the London-bound Boeing 787 Dreamliner died when the plane crashed shortly after take-off from Ahmedabad in western India on June 12.

Some 169 Indian passengers and 52 British nationals were killed, making it one of the deadliest plane crashes in terms of the number of British fatalities.

Several people on the ground also died while only one passenger, British citizen Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, survived the crash.