Private carrier Air India on Saturday said it has paid the interim compensation to the families of 166 victims of the Ahmedabad plane crash last month.

A preliminary report released last week included detail about the fuel, saying that the fuel to the plane's engines appeared to have been shut off.

Manisha Kachhadiya's bravery during the Ahmedabad plane crash saved her son Dhyaansh, followed by donating her skin for his recovery at KD Hospital.

The voices in the cockpit fuelling controversy over Air India crash Read the preliminary report Are India's skies safe? Air safety watchdog responds amid rising concerns India's aviation regulator flagged 263 safety issues across eight commercial airlines in its annual audit,

India's aviation regulator said on Wednesday it had found 263 safety-related lapses at the country's airlines, including 23 at the largest carrier IndiGo and 51 at the second largest Air India, as part of its regular annual audit.

In the wake of last month's deadly Air India crash, an audit into the airline's operations is being conducted. Boeing 787 Flight 171 crashed into a medical college campus and in the city of Ahmedabad,