The compensation, processed under the airline’s insurance cover, includes payouts to the families of 147 passengers and 19 individuals who were killed on the ground. In total, the accident claimed 260 lives.

Sumeet Sabharwal, 56, was the captain on the flight, while Clive Kunder, 32, was the co-pilot who was flying the plane. Together, the two pilots had more than 19,000 hours of flight experience - nearly half of it on the Boeing 787. Both had passed all pre-flight health checks before the crash.

An official report on the world’s deadliest aviation accident in a decade, seen by CNN, has answered one key question – but raised others.