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

Ahmedabad fire officials reported three delegations visited the crash site. The black box's recovery is vital for the investigation. 270 bodies have been retrieved, with 80 identified. A committee will investigate the crash's causes.

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.