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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Bryony Gooch

Mother of British Air India plane crash victim shares agony over ‘appalling’ body mix-up

The mother of a victim of the Air India crash has spoken out about the “heartbreaking” moment she received the wrong body to bury in a botched repatriation scheme.

Fiongal Greenlaw-Meek, 39, had been on the plane from Ahmedabad with his husband, Jamie, 45, after celebrating their wedding anniversary in India, when the plane to London Gatwick crashed less than a minute into the flight. Only one passenger survived when the Air India flight 171 lost power and hit a building, killing 260 people.

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