London – the families of some British victims of the Air India Airplane Crash in Ahmedabad have discovered that remains in the UK have been wrongly identified as their loved ones, a lawyer who says that his company represents more than 20 families of victims, told CBS News. Of the 242 people aboard the Air India flight from Ahmedabad to Gatwick Airport in London who crashed on 12 June after taking off, 52 British citizens were.
De oorzaak van de crash is niet bevestigd, maar een voorlopig rapport dat eerder deze maand werd vrijgegeven door het India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau, ontdekte dat cockpit cutoff-schakelaars voor brandstoftoevoer naar beide van de motoren van Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner waren geschakeld, de een na de andere, binnen een seconde, binnen een seconde, binnen een seconde, which leads to both engines that lose thrust.
James Healy-Pratt, an aviation lawyer who said he represented a number of British families, told CBS News that the remains of at least 12 British victims from the crash to the UK had been repatriated, but that two of them were misunderstood.
“There was one family who believed that they had accompanied their loved one from India, after they had gone outside to give DNA for identification, and when (when they returned to the VK) it was informed that the remains in the box had nothing to do with them,” Healy-Pratt to CBS News told.
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Healy-Pratt said the mistakes were discovered when the domestic coroner, Dr. Fiona Wilcox, tried to verify the identity of the victims by matching their DNA with samples provided by the families.
“The first two boxes that entered the country Wilcox and her team, as always, decided diligently, decided to check the verification and identity, and they discovered that DNA was mixed in one of the boxes, who was not related to the person in the box or the other person,” said Healy-Pratt.
Healy-Pratt said that the family of one of the victims had to cancel funeral plans after they had told the remains that they thought they were of their loved ones were actually those of an unknown individual.
“It is a double psychological trauma. It is one thing to lose a beloved, but then you go to India, you are in a hotel, you give your DNA, you pray to God that there will be a DNA match. You are then told that everything has not returned, and then you are told that there is no, and that there is no. “Healy-Pratt told CBS News.
Indian officials who were cited by local media shortly after the crash said that, given the level of destruction on the site and the extent to which the wreck was burned, DNA tests would be needed to confirm the last death toll of both the aircraft and the buildings on the site in Ahmedabad.
“We have seen the report and worked closely with the British side from the moment these concerns and problems were brought to our attention,” said spokesperson for the Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Shri Randhir Jaiswal in a statement on Wednesday. “After the tragic crash, the authorities involved had carried out the identification of victims according to established protocols and technical requirements. All mortal remains were treated with the greatest professionalism and in particular the dignity of the deceased. We continue to work with the British authorities about tackling any problems with this issue.”
Healy-Pratt said that the declaration of the declaration of the Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs was “just not good enough”.
“It is lacking in details. There is no detailed explanation of the storage of the remains of the time of identification with DNA matching with the placement of crates. All guarantees are missing that there may be remains, whether it is wrong, not -infected or identified, still in India,” he said.
“The families want to draw a boundary under their emotional tech that comes from this and therefore required in detailed hard work of the Indian authorities to offer guarantees that there are no further remnants of British nationals, or not -ignored, identified or wrong, not being drawn in India and the line and the line will be identified and the line will be identified to this and the line and the line will be identified and the line will be identified and the line will be identified and the line and the line will be identified and the line will be identified and on this. not.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet in London this week and Healy-Pratt said he hoped that this issue would achieve their agenda.
Healy-Pratt also said that, in addition to the search for the remains of their loved ones, the British families want to know the cause of Air India’s crash, so their lawyers investigate independently. The families, said Healy-Pratt, want to ensure that all safety recommendations from formal probes are implemented internationally.
“And then they finally want financial justice,” said Healy-Pratt.
He said that the legal team of the families “had already made an approach to the lawyers for Air India in London, and we will claim in the Supreme Court. And we will also submit an action against Boeing in the American courts to get more information about these switches of the fuel control, because they have a checkered history.”
has contributed to this report.
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