Nearly a year after Air India Flight 171 tore through a medical college campus in Ahmedabad, the physical scars of the disaster remain etched into the landscape. The blackened hostel buildings of the Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Medical College have faded to a dull grey, with a gaping hole where the plane entered the building now looking more like the neglect of age than the impact of one of India's deadliest aviation disasters.
The Independent visited the scene one year on from the crash that killed 260 people, including 19 on the ground, and injured dozens more. For those who lived through the disaster on the ground, time has done little to soften the memories.
