The Air India flight to Gatwick was carrying 242 people when it crashed into a medical college hostel moments after taking off from Ahmedabad airport on Thursday.

Mourners covered white coffins with flowers in India on Sunday as funerals were held for some of the at least 279 people killed in one of the world’s worst plane crashes in decades. Health officials have begun handing over the first passenger bodies identified through DNA testing,

The aircraft struck a medical college hostel in a residential part of Ahmedabad, killing 241 of the 242 people on board.