Three days after the crash, only 35 bodies had been handed over to relatives from an overall official death toll of 270.

The seven-year-old Boeing 787-8 had only reached 22,000 feet before it hit the unexpected descent — prompting the pilot to turn the aircraft around quickly, according to AirNav radar.

An Air India flight had to make an emergency landing following reports of a bomb threat one day after hundreds died in a ...