Prayers held at temple in Madurai for those on board crashed plane
Special prayers were held at the Kanchi Sri Maha Periyava temple in Tamil Nadu's Madurai for those on board Air India's AI-171 flight that crashed in Ahmedabad around 2 pm on Thursday. The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft carried 230 passengers and 12 crew members. While one passenger survived the crash, there are no official reports of any other survivor.