Doctors in India say 270 bodies have been recovered from the site of Thursday's plane crash in Ahmedabad. The London-bound aircraft crashed into a residential area shortly after take-off killing all but one of the 242 passengers, a 40-year-old British man.

Elcina Alpesh Makwana was on a trip to India to visit her parents and receive dental treatment when the disaster struck (Picture: Tim Clarke) The body of the first British victim of Air India Flight 171 has been returned by officials to her family.

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