The flight was carrying passengers and 12 crew. Only a single British passenger, named as Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, 40, survived. He is understood to have jumped from the emergency door of the Gatwick-bound plane as the flight came came down.

Air India flight 159 was due to fly the same route and in the same type of aircraft - a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner - as the one involved in last week's tragedy.

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