Amanda Donaghey claimed officials sent her home with the remains of a different victim after her son, Fiongal Greenlaw-Meek, died in the Air India crash. At least one other family said they also brought home incorrect remains.

The mother of a British Air India crash victim has said her family is "heartbroken" after receiving news the remains of her son were wrongly identified

With 260 casualties and only one surviving passenger, the Air India 171 crash is one of the deadliest aviation incidents in recent history — and so far it’s proving to be one of the most frustratingly opaque.

Air India said that the Tata Group, which currently owns the airline, has registered 'The AI-171 Memorial and Welfare Trust', which is dedicated to the victims of the Ahmedabad plane crash.

Before one of its planes crashed just after takeoff last month, killing at least 260 people, Air India had been a symbol of the country’s global rise

Doubts still remain as to whether bodies buried in India without being DNA tested a second time were correctly identified before being laid to rest. James Healey Pratt, an aviation lawyer at Keystone Law who is representing 20 bereaved families said that he was in contact with the Foreign Office and UK authorities.

Air India has, so far, released the interim compensation to the families of 147 of the 229 deceased passengers and also the 19 who lost their lives at the accident site. In addition, the requisite documents of 52 others have been verified,

Following recent incidents and regulatory scrutiny, the Tata Group and the aviation ministry are collaborating to revitalise Air India. Discussions between N Chandrasekaran, aviation minister Ram Mohan Naidu,