Just days after his wife, Bharatiben, succumbed to cancer, Arjun Patoliya visited their native Gujarat village in India last week to fulfill her dying wish of being laid to rest there.

The death toll in the Air India crash has risen to at 270 after recovery teams found at least 25 more bodies in the debris.

Densely populated areas are located around airports in many cities and Thursday's Ahmedabad plane crash, in which at least 30 people were killed on the ground as well, has got residents worried about a tragedy like that hitting closer home.

An Air India plane crashed into a medical college in Ahmedabad, killing people on the ground and leaving a sole survivor on the flight. Authorities said 269 died.

According to a senior official, four MBBS students and a doctor's wife were among those killed when an Air India flight crashed into a building.