😱 India’s skies hide a deadly secret: The shocking culprit behind the AI-171 crash unearthed, leaving pilots furious and experts stunned! Was it betrayal or blunder that doomed hundreds? The truth will haunt you… Reveal it here 👉

Distraught families of Air India AI-171 crash victims, in some cases, were sent the wrong remains, suggest reports. The shocking news has come from the United Kingdom, where families of the plane crash victims have reported receiving the mortal remains of unknown passengers instead of their loved ones. As per reports, relatives of one victim were forced to abandon their funeral plans after being informed that the coffin contained the body of an unknown passenger. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is expected to address the issue with his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, during his state visit to the UK next week.

Commingled remains

As per a Mirror UK report, the family of one victim discovered that the coffin contained the body of an unknown passenger and not their family member. In another case, the “commingled” remains of more than one person were mistakenly placed in the same casket. The remains had to be sorted before the last rites could be undertaken last weekend.

Reports suggest that 52 of the 261 passengers on the Air India AI-171 flight from Ahmedabad to London, which crashed on 12 June 2025, were British citizens. Of these, already two instances of mistaken remains have come to light. Families of the victims have been taken aback by the alarming reports of mistaken identity and have been left fearful that they too could face such errors.

How was the error identified?

This error came to light when Dr Fiona Wilcox, an Inner West London coroner, sought to match the DNA of the victim with the samples provided by their families.

Speaking to the press, aviation lawyer James Healy-Pratt said that families of the victims were left “distraught” over the mistake. He said that “I’ve been sitting down in the homes of these lovely British families over the last month, and the first thing they want is their loved ones back… But some of them have got the wrong remains, and they are clearly distraught over this. It has been going on for a couple of weeks, and I think these families deserve an explanation.”

With 260 casualties and only one surviving passenger, the Air India 171 crash is one of the deadliest aviation incidents in recent history — and so far it’s proving to be one of the most frustratingly opaque.

Video of the June 12 incident had previously captured the Boeing 787 taking off successfully from Ahmedabad bound for London, only to rapidly descend, crash into a medical college complex, and explode into flames. The crash killed all but one of the plane’s 242 occupants. It also damaged five buildings, killed 19 people on the ground, and injured over 60 more.

The weeks that followed saw rampant speculation, AI-generated hoaxes, and conspiracy theories. Finally, on July 11 India’s air safety organization, the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), issued a preliminary report into the cause of the disaster. The 15-page report pinpointed a dark and disturbing factor as the reason for the crash: Shortly after takeoff, someone or something cut the flow of fuel to both engines, almost simultaneously. This caused a brief but fatal dual engine shutdown that proved impossible for the plane to recover from.

The implications of that double shutdown are quite bleak — but there’s still a lot we don’t know.

What caused the crash?

In the weeks following the tragedy, public speculation about the potential cause ranged from a bird strike to an electrical problem; some suggested fuel contamination, others a malfunction with the wing flaps. Many focused on what seemed to have been an extreme occurrence suggested by the visibility of the Ram Air Turbine (RAT), which deploys when there are engine problems: a total engine failure.

Over on YouTube, many analyzed the crash, including some pilots. Among them was Trevor Smith, call sign “Hoover,” a former military pilot who now flies for a commercial airline. On the side, he runs the YouTube crash analysis channel Pilot Debrief. Following the Air India crash, he emphasized what seemed to be the dual loss of thrust to both engines, and speculated that perhaps one engine had lost thrust for an unknown reason and that then one of the pilots had accidentally turned off the fuel control switch to the other engine, causing both to lose thrust.

Smith was hypothesizing a scenario in which at least one engine had been lost due to a mechanical failure, and an overwhelmed pilot mistakenly deactivated the other engine. The preliminary report, however, was more grim. It rejected all of those possibilities and instead pointed firmly toward a simple but unthinkable event: Both engines were shut down, first one and then the other, by way of the fuel control cutoff switch.