Ahmedabad plane crash: Air India starts process to return personal belongings to kin of...

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• “Air India is handling this process of returning personal belongings to the kin of the victims with utmost respect, dignity, and accuracy.
• Working closely with a qualified external partner, our teams have spent considerable time cataloguing and documenting recoverable and returnable items,” the spokesperson said.
• Over 22,000 personal belongings have been preserved and listed on a dedicated portal with meticulous care, including nearly 8,000 ‘associated items’, such as passports or any document that can be linked with a particular person, and 14,000 ‘un-associated items’ that cannot be linked in this manner, the spokesperson added.
• He said information about these items has been shared with families through email and a dedicated website, and once families confirm the details, the belongings will be handed over physically in a manner that honours their grief and privacy.
• For ‘associated items’, mails have been sent to the concerned families with the photograph and details of that recovered item.