Prayers are being held across the South East for people who died in the Air India plane crash on Thursday. A temple in Gravesend, Kent, is holding a memorial service on Sunday to remember the victims.

Safety and the supply chain supplant orders at this year’s biennial Paris Airshow in the wake of the Air India accident.

Since Thursday evening, Mr Jignesh and his family have been doing the rounds of the Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad, trying to find details of his 22-year-old niece - one of the 242 passengers that died in an Air India plane crash earlier that day.

Air India crash likely to trigger India’s biggest aviation insurance payout - The total liability could range from £166m to £220m, according to estimates

Indian investigators have recovered the digital flight data recorder or the black box of the Air India flight that crashed a day earlier.

At the hospital in Ahmedabad, family members were giving DNA samples, waiting for official confirmation of their loss in the Air India disaster, and remembering their loved ones.

AHMEDABAD, India >> The investigation into the Air India plane crash that killed more than 240 people is focusing on the engine, flaps and landing gear, a source said on Friday, as the aviation regulator ordered safety checks on the airline’s entire Boeing-787 fleet.