NEW DELHI 

India on Friday ordered inspection of Air India's Boeing 787 Dreamliner fleet, a day after an Air India plane crashed in Ahmedabad, western Gujarat state, killing at least 265 people on board and on the ground.

In light of the AI-171 accident, Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) “directed Air India to conduct “additional maintenance actions on Boeing 787-8/9 aircrafts equipped with Genx engines,” the Civil Aviation Ministry said.

Early Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the crash site of the UK-bound plane which slammed into a hostel of a local medical college, killing 241 aboard the Air India plane and 24 others on ground.

Only one passenger survived the crash after he jumped out of the plane.

In a post on X after visiting the scene, Modi said the "devastation is saddening," and that he met officials "working tirelessly in the aftermath."

"Our thoughts remain with those who lost their loved ones in this unimaginable tragedy," he said.

Among the passengers were 169 Indian nationals, 53 British nationals, seven Portuguese, and one Canadian.

Investigators at the Air India crash site near Ahmedabad Airport recovered the aircraft’s black box and the critical flight data and cockpit voice “recordings are expected to provide key insights into the cause” of the tragic crash of AI-17, state broadcaster DD News reported.

Police said they had recovered 265 bodies from the crash site, though the identities of local residents who died when the plane struck the hostel have yet to be confirmed.

Indian Home Minister Amit Shah, who visited the site on Thursday, told reporters that the official death toll would be released only after DNA testing is completed.

Rescue operations continued Friday morning. Authorities said further details would be shared once the search and recovery efforts are completed.

Hariom Gandhi, a senior official with the National Disaster Response Force, told reporters at the scene that operations were still underway in coordination with other agencies.

India's Aviation Minister Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu said a formal investigation into the crash had been launched by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau.

Separately, an Air India flight made an emergency landing in Thailand after Phuket International Airport received a bomb threat during its flight to New Delhi on Friday, the Nation news outlet reported. It that no suspicious object was found and the flight departed from Phuket and resumed its journey to Delhi.