Of the 241 passengers and crew members who died, the mortal remains of 240 had been identified earlier while one body was pending for match. The matching of the DNA samples confirmed the victim’s identity on Friday, the officials said.Apart from 241 passengers and crew members, 19 persons on the ground died, they said.A 40-year-old British national, Vishwas Kumar Ramesh, emerged as the lone survivor of the plane crash.Till June 23, officials had confirmed the identity of 259 victims.They had to carry out DNA tests to establish the identity of the victims as many bodies were charred beyond recognition or damaged.The 260 victims included 200 Indians, including 181 passengers and 19 ground victims, seven Portuguese nationals, 52 British nationals and one Canadian, the government said in a release.An official release said the DNA matching process was very complicated as a large number of bodies had to be identified since they were beyond recognition. In such cases, the DNA matching of victims with their family members takes months. But in the case of the Air India plane crash, identification of samples was completed in about two weeks, it said.
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