The death toll in the deadly Air India plane crash rose to 270 on Saturday, with families increasingly getting upset due to delays in handing over bodies which were badly charred in the tragedy in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad.

News of the sole survivor of an Air India plane crash that killed the other 241 people aboard has led to endless fascination online.

Indian investigators have recovered the digital flight data recorder or the black box of the Air India flight that crashed a day earlier.