Ramesh Vishwaskumar Bucharvada, 40, was the sole survivor of Flight AI171, which went down just 30 seconds after take-off from Ahmedabad on June 12

The Air India flight fell from the sky on Thursday and killed at least 270 people in Gujarat state, officials said Saturday.

DNA identification is the gold standard for identifying human remains, especially after mass fatality events in which bodies might not be easy to identify otherwise.