Doctors in India say 270 bodies have been recovered from the site of Thursday's plane crash in Ahmedabad. The London-bound aircraft crashed into a residential area shortly after take-off killing all but one of the 242 passengers, a 40-year-old British man.

Extreme heat, intensified by climate change, presents increasing challenges to air travel, affecting aircraft performance and potentially causing delays. While modern planes are designed and tested to withstand extreme conditions,

Air India flight AI171, a Boeing 787-8 carrying 242 people, crashed after taking off from Ahmedabad on its way to London.