Air India has confirmed that 241 people, including 52 British nationals who were on board the flight, were killed in the crash.

Boeing was generating optimism. Then on Thursday a 787 crashed, raising the specter of fresh problems for Boeing and altering the message it planned to send.

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashed shortly after take off on Thursday in what is one of the deadliest plane accidents in terms of the number of British nationals killed. It struck a medical college hostel in a residential part of Ahmedabad, killing 241 of the 242 people on board.

Three days after the crash, only 35 bodies had been handed over to relatives from an overall official death toll of 270.

Indian investigators have recovered the digital flight data recorder or the black box of the Air India flight that crashed a day earlier.