More than 200 people have died after an Air India plane crashed in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad, a police officer has told Reuters.
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The plane was headed for London Gatwick Airport when it crashed five minutes after taking off at 1.38pm local time on Thursday.
Video, obtained by local media, showed the aircraft fly over a residential area called Meghani Nagar before crashing, creating what appeared to be a large explosion.
Photographs of the aftermath showed billowing smoke rising over the area and firefighters on charred streets. In another image, people were seen assessing the damage while part of the mangled plane could be seen sticking out of a building.
More than 100 bodies, most of them badly charred, had been brought to the local government hospital for autopsy, authorities said.
Air India’s chair, Natarajan Chandrasekaran, described the incident as a “tragic accident”.
The 242 people onboard the flight to Gatwick airport included 217 adults and 11 children. Of them, 169 were Indian nationals, 53 were Britons, seven Portuguese, and one Canadian, Air India said.
This is the first crash ever of a Boeing 787 aircraft, according to the Aviation Safety Network database.
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Rest in peace airplane 🛫
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Gives me a flashback of American Airlines DC-10 crash in Chicago… one thing i am sure it wasn't crew's fault.
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Wot happend here
Worst Airlines, don’t know the reason but maintenance is zero
I suggest not to take this flight in ur lifetime, else u will loose your life
Please ❤❤❤❤😢😢
See my post in side view of plane
Rip ❤
A DI ĐÀ PHẬT..😢
A DI ĐÀ PHẬT…
NAM MÔ BỒ TÁT QUÁN THẾ ÂM…cầu nguyện các nạn nhân xấu số được siêu sanh cõi an lạc 🙏🙏🙏
Вау, съёмка экрана смартфона
Mis condolencias a todas las familias. Se que que no hay palabras para tan inmenso dolor para ustedes😢😢😢😢. Dios Altísimo JEHOVÁ JIRED los bendiga!!!!😢😢😢
“Appears to show”?????
Wait did you look at the tv or in inda
Air India plan
How horrible it must have been to see the impending death..it was inevitable 😢😢😢
Allahukabar ❤❤ 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽✈️✈️✈️🏴🏴🏴
Video record karnewala has kyu raha hai.k😢 kuch feeling emotion hai kya nahi usko
Aag lagu basti mai😅
I think this was planned
We should not think negative or when we are sitting in air plane we will also feel that only 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😢😮😮😮
He who was recording this vedio knew this was going to happen
Air india lost its trust. Don't play with people's lives!!