Wait for bodies deepens pain of families after Air India crash

For Mistry Jignessh, you feel 72 hours of eternity.

Since Thursday evening, Mr. Jennis and his family have tours the civil hospital in Ahmedabad, in an attempt to find the details of his 22-year-old niece-one of the 242 passengers who died in a flight aircraft earlier that day.

The authorities were telling him that they would restore the body of his niece in the seventy hours of usually required to complete the DNA matching – which ends on Sunday.

But on Saturday, he was told that it might take longer as officials are still looking for bodies from the accident site.

“When people are still missing, how can they complete the DNA process by tomorrow? What if my brother’s remains are not found even? Waiting kills us.”

Officials declined to comment on Mr. Jennis’s claim, but the firefighting administration officer and the BBC police officer provided that his identity was not disclosed that searching for the remains of passengers is still ongoing.

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

Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, which was on its way to Gatwick Airport in London, broke out in a fiery ball shortly after taking off from Ahmedabad’s main airport, in what was the worst flight disaster in India.

Only one survived 242 passengers and crew on board. At least eight others were killed when the plane hit the medical college when it fell in a dense residential area near the airport.

Things have moved quickly since then.

The Indian government has ordered a high -level investigation into the accident and ordered all Boeing 787s run by local transport companies to search.

While the cause of the accident is still unknown, the country’s aviation authority said it was looking into all the possible causes of the accident, also brings foreign aviation experts to help the investigation.

Returning to the hospital, doctors are racing to complete the DNA samples of the victims so that they can start returning to their families.

But for families like Mr. Jignessh, time passes calm.

Officials talked about how the identification of the bodies was very difficult – and it is implemented in small batches – as most remains were emptied along with confession.

“There is no room for errors here – we have to ensure that every family receives the appropriate body,” said HP Sanghvi, Director of the Forensic Sciences Directorate in Ganddinagar. “But the DNA determination is a long time process. Besides, given the disaster, there is also the possibility that the DNA of many passengers has been damaged by the very high temperature of the explosion.”

Jeishkar Pelay, a dentist in the hospital’s forensic medicine, told reporters that his team is trying to collect dental records from charred bodies, because this may be the only source of the remaining DNA.

The waiting was further than painful to the families, many of whom refused to speak to the media, saying they just want to return home with “the remainder of their loved ones.”

“We are not saying anything. We fail now.”

Meanwhile, BJ College officials began evacuating several wings from the youth house, near the plane. So far, four wings – including the youth house bombing, the location of the accident – completely emptied.

But students who live in other wings close to the youth house began to leave.

“In one of the wings, only three people remain – everyone has returned to their homes at the moment. They will leave soon, but until then, they sit there, all of them alone, chasing them the memory of what happened,” said their friend, who is also a college student and they want to remain unknown, they said.

But between the college and the hospital – in the vast extension of this city, which includes more than seven million people – there are many others who also reeling from the tragedy.

The last Cartic Calvia was heard about his brother Mahesh on Thursday, 30 minutes before the accident.

It was a phone call that Mahesh made to his wife: “I go home,” he said to her.

You did not hear from him again.

Mahish was a producer of music in the film industry in Gojarati, and he was on his way home to work that day and was crossing the area when the plane was broken and crashed into the buildings.

Mr. Calvia BBC told the site of his last brother before his phone became unable to reach a few hundred meters from the BJ College.

Since then, the family has submitted a complaint with the police and made endless visits to the Civil Hospital. They have found nothing yet.

“The hospital told us that they have no record for my brother. We also tried to follow his scooter, but nothing came from that,” said Mr. Calvia.

“It seems as if he disappeared in the air.”

At a press conference on Saturday, the Minister of Civil Aviation Sk Sinha admitted that the last two days was “very difficult”, but he confirmed that the investigation was running smoothly and in the right direction.

But Mr. Calvia asked whether any of these inquiries – in the crash of the plane, the victims and beyond – would help him find his brother, dead or alive.

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

Returning to the Civil Hospital, the waiting for families continues to be chased.

When the BBC He met the last emiaz Ali Sayed During Thursday night, he was still in denying that his family – his brother Jafid with his wife and two children – could have died in the accident.

But on Saturday, it seemed closer to “accepting the truth.”

“With only a few hours remain, we are now trying to determine what it will be: Will we bury him here, or in the United Kingdom, where his wife’s family lives,” he said.

“For me, there is no difference you know?” He continued, “Because he went, from ash to dust and returning to God.”

Additional reports by Antriksha Pathania in Ahmed Abad