section_path: Casualties
section_name: Casualties
paragraph_text: Casualties
  
  The crash killed 241 people aboard the aircraft and at least 39 in the hostel buildings. By 13 June, police officials said that six bodies had been released to their families. Among the casualties was Vijay Rupani, the former Chief Minister of Gujarat (2016–2021), whose body was identified through DNA identification. The intense heat of the crash, which had reached an estimated 1,500 °C (2,700 °F), hindered DNA collection and testing, with only 47 bodies having been identified and 35 having been handed over to their families three days after the crash.
  
  At least 50 medical students from the hostel buildings were hospitalised. The dean of the college said that "most of the students escaped, but 10 or 12 were trapped in the fire".
  
  A 40-year-old British citizen was the sole survivor of the crash. He had been seated in seat 11A, located next to an emergency exit. The survivor said that the section of the aircraft where he was seated detached and came to rest on the ground floor of the hostel. After unfastening his seat belt, he escaped through an opening created by the emergency exit breaking open. Doctors treating him reported that he was in a disorientated condition with multiple injuries, including burns to his left hand, but was no longer in danger. His brother, who had been seated in a different row, did not survive.
  
  The crash was the deadliest aviation accident in India since the 1996 Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision and Air India's worst disaster since the bombing of Flight 182 in 1985.