India, June 14 -- Ahmedabad was witness to the grief of hundreds of inconsolable relatives of the victims of Thursday's Air India crash that left around 260 people dead.

While investigators rushed to piece together the sequence of events from the few pieces of evidence that led to the first-ever fatal crash of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, families of the 241 passengers of the London-bound flight started pouring into the city to get information about their loved ones.

Among those on the flight were Ahmedabad-based Pinakin Shah and his wife Rupaben, who were en route to the UK to meet their son Rushab.

"Rushab had bought a new house (in Glasgow). The family was excited as Pinakin's sister Janaki, who lived in Kuwait, and her two grandchild...