The plane crashed into a building that was used as doctors’ accommodation at the Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Medical College and Civil Hospital.
It was lunch break at the hostel when parts of the plane crashed through the roof of the dining hall.
A photograph taken after the crash showed abandoned tables and plates of food in the hostel’s canteen. At the far end of the room, people gathered to inspect a huge hole in the wall, apparently caused by the impact of the plane.
One woman at the scene said that her son jumped from the second floor of the hostel, sustaining injuries, when the plane crashed.
Dr Minakshi Parikh, the dean of the BJ Medical College and Civil Hospital, told the BBC that at least four students and four doctors’ relatives had died.
On Friday, staff at the hospital were busily trying to identify bodies as hundreds of relatives waited anxiously for news.
“We are relying on DNA matching to identify them,” Dr Parikh said. “It is something where we simply cannot rush or afford mistakes.”
Family members have been asked to submit DNA samples to the hospital so that doctors can check if there are matches with the bodies that have been found.
Authorities have said they will release an official death toll once all DNA testing has been completed.
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