Reuters Photographer Adnan Abidi captures images of the mangled remains of AI-171 which crashed shortly after take off from Ahmedabad on Thursday afternoon.
The Boeing Dreamliner aircraft plummeted less than a minute into the flight, leaving behind a trail of destruction and unanswered questions.
IMAGE: Health officials wait to take DNA samples from family members of victims of the air crash at a hospital in Ahmedabad. All photographs: Adnan Abidi/Reuters
IMAGE: A family member of one of the victims waits to give a DNA sample at a hospital in Ahmedabad.
IMAGE: Shailesh Kumar Ishwarbhai, 66, a family member of one of the victims, waits to give a DNA sample at the hospital in Ahmedabad.
IMAGE: A health official takes a DNA sample from a family member of one of the victims.
IMAGE: A volunteer walks past stretchers for the bodies of victims of the air crash.
IMAGE: Volunteers stand next to stretchers for the victims who died in the air crash.
IMAGE: Interrupted meals at the B J Medical College hostel mess which was struck by the Air India aircraft.
IMAGE: A mighty aircraft reduced to this mangled mess.
IMAGE: A police officer at the crash site.
IMAGE: Part of the aircraft fuselage.
IMAGE: Wreckage of the Air India aircraft.
IMAGE: Rescue personnel amidst the wreckage of AI 171.
IMAGE: Passengers' luggage at the crash site.
IMAGE: Debris at the crash site.
IMAGE: A police officer at the crash site.
IMAGE: A police officer stands near the aircraft wreckage.
IMAGE: Crash investigators will want to carefully examine the Air India aircraft's engine.
IMAGE: Part of the aircraft embedded in the wall at the B J Medical College hostel.
IMAGE: Security personnel stand next to the wreckage of AI 171.
IMAGE: A journalist standing next to the wreckage of the landing gear of the Air India aircraft does a 'piece to camera'.
IMAGE: A person takes a picture of the wreckage of the tail section of the aircraft which is stuck in the building struck by the crashing Dreamliner.
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