One of the engines of the Air India plane that crashed last week was new, while the other was not due for servicing until December, the airline's chairman has said. In an interview with an Indian news channel, N Chandrasekaran said that both engines of the aircraft had "clean" histories.

Brit Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, who was sitting in seat 11A, said it was a 'miracle' he survived last Thursday's disaster that killed 279 people.

Images from the fatal Air India plane crash are flooding in from Ahmedabad. Air India plane flight AI171, with more than 200 people onboard, crashed minutes after taking off from Ahmedabad, India on Thursday, June 12. City police chief G.S. Malik told Reuters that 204 bodies had been recovered from the crash site.