Air India: Woman Who Lost Her Son in Plane Crash Laments After Receiving Remains of Another Victim
- A British woman who lost her son in the Air India plane crash has cried out after receiving the remains of another victim
- Instead of her son’s remains, another person’s remains were in the coffin, flown to the UK from India
- Details about how she found out and her next step have emerged, as she called on the UK government for help
A woman who lost her son in the Air India plane crash cried out after the wrong remains were sent to her in the United Kingdom.
Her son, Fiongal Greenlaw-Meek, was among the 52 Britons who were on the plane that crashed and killed 241 people.
Source: UGC
An Air India plane, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, crashed into the BJ Medical College and Hospital in Ahmedabad on June 12, 2025, and exploded into flames shortly after takeoff.
The plane was headed for London’s Gatwick Airport in the United Kingdom with 242 people on board, and only one passenger survived the crash.
As reported by The Guardian, Fiongal’s mother, Amanda Donaghey, said she was heartbroken by the casket error.
Mother heartbroken after receiving wrong remains
After the plane crash happened on June 12, Amanda Donaghey, whose son died in the crash, flew to India to retrieve the remains of her son.
When she arrived at Ahmedabad’s civil hospital, she was asked to submit a DNA sample so that she could identify her son.
Days after submitting her DNA test, her son's remains were matched with hers on June 20. After that, she flew to the UK with the coffin supposedly containing her son's remains.
Source: UGC
Sadly, after conducting another DNA test in the UK on July 5, the police told her that it was discovered that the remains in the coffin didn't belong to her son.
The heartbroken woman said:
“We don’t know what poor person is in that casket. I had my doubts but to be told that was heartbreaking. This is an appalling thing to have happened.”
The grieving mother then sought help from the UK government, calling on their assistance to find out what happened to her son's remains and help to "bring Fiongal home”.
Some lawyers representing families of British victims stated that unidentified remains were found in at least 2 out of 12 coffins that were flown back to the UK.
One of the lawyers, James Healy-Pratt, said:
“We know that 12 caskets were repatriated from India to the UK. Of those 12, two had been mishandled, misidentified. And so if you extrapolate that sample, you’re looking at 40 mishandled remains out of 240. That’s a very large number, but we simply don’t know.”
A month after the crash, a preliminary investigation report by India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau was released publicly.
Worrying update about plane crash’s only survivor emerges
Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that health concerns have surfaced about the sole survivor, Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, a month after the tragic Air India plane crash.
Ramesh, still haunted by the tragedy, reportedly suffers from recurring nightmares of the incident, according to his relative Krunal Keshave.
Source: Legit.ng
