Authorities in Gujarat state said on Tuesday they had identified all but one of 260 bodies recovered following an Air India plane crash earlier this month in the western city of Ahmedabad.

Ahmedabad: The Ahmedabad Civil Hospital has handed over the bodies of 256 victims of the Air India AI 171 flight crash to the families, and has identified over 259 victims, according to medical superintendent Rakesh Joshi.

Air India plane crash investigators find the first of the "black boxes" from the Boeing 787-8 that slammed into buildings, killing all but one of the 242 people on board.