- Air India Jet crashes near the airport; Only one person survives.
- The senior official reveals a number of deaths reviewed under condition of anonymity.
- The researchers recover the black box; DNA needed to confirm the casualties.
An Indian police source said on Saturday that 279 bodies had been recovered from the site where a passenger plane crashed into a residential district of the city of Ahmedabad.
The revised toll of a superior officer in the city, which requested anonymity to speak with the media, raises an earlier figure of 265.
The increase makes it one of the most mortal plane disasters of the 21st century.
Air India said there were 242 people aboard the flight to the London Gatwick airport, only one of which survived.
At least 38 people were killed on the ground when the plane crashed into residential buildings near the airport.
The official number of victims will not end until the slow DNA identification process is completed.
Air India said there were 169 Indian passengers, 53 British, seven Portuguese and a Canadian aboard the flight, as well as 12 crew members.
Boeing 787-8 Dreamliners issued a call from Mayday moments before he crashed around lunch time after lifting just 100 meters (330 feet) from the ground.
The researchers recovered a black cash recorder on Friday from the accident scene, with forensic equipment that still looks for the second.
The United States planner, Boeing, said he was in contact with Air India and was “ready to support them” for the incident, that a source close to the case said it was the first accident for a 787 Dreamliner.
