India’s government is urgently inspecting all Boeing 787s after a devastating Air India crash that claimed at least 270 lives this week, the aviation minister said on Saturday, adding that the authorities were investigating all possible causes.

Doctors in India say 270 bodies have been recovered from the site of Thursday's plane crash in Ahmedabad. The London-bound aircraft crashed into a residential area shortly after take-off killing all but one of the 242 passengers, a 40-year-old British man.

Investigators probing the deadly crash of an Air India Boeing 787 have recovered the aircraft’s flight recorders, a key step in determining the cause of a tragedy that killed more than 260 people. The London-bound aircraft crashed shortly after taking off with 242 people on board on Thursday,