The Air India flight fell from the sky on Thursday and killed at least 270 people in Gujarat state, officials said Saturday.

The Air India plane crash investigation continues after the black boxes were recovered. The captain was reportedly a few months from retirement. "I'm just appalled," one person fumed. "Repulsed."

India’s government is urgently inspecting all Boeing 787s after a devastating Air India crash that claimed at least 270 lives this week, the aviation minister said on Saturday, adding that the authorities were investigating all possible causes.

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.

One of the Brits on board the doomed Air India flight which crashed shortly after take off on 12 June shared some emotional words with his loved ones just moments before the plane plummeted into a building. Flight AI171 was bound for London, Gatwick when it took off from Ahmedabad.

Tragedy struck this week when a plane crashed in the city of Ahmedabad just shortly after takeoff, leaving investigators and aviation officials with many questions.

Air India directed to carry out Boeing 787 safety checks as families reunited with victims Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe on Thursday declared a State of Emergency and activated the Missouri National Guard in anticipation of protests across the state. They thought he was doing a different kind of "cruising."

Turkey said its maintenance deal with Air India covers only Boeing 777 aircraft, not the 787-8 model involved in the Ahmedabad crash that killed 270.