US EditionLondon-bound Air India flight with more than 240 aboard crashes after takeoff from Ahmedabad, India
- An Air India Boeing 787-8 aircraft with 242 passengers and crew on board crashed into the Atulyam building in Ahmedabad shortly after departing at 1:38 pm local time on Friday.
- The crash followed loss of signal minutes after departure, with the plane issuing a mayday call before rapidly losing altitude over a crowded residential area.
- Rescue teams recovered at least 265 bodies, including victims on the ground, and continued searching the charred remains of a medical college hostel for missing people and aircraft parts.
- Authorities confirmed a single survivor, noted that nearly 70% of the passengers remained seated with their seatbelts secured, and estimated that approximately 24 fatalities resulted from the impact on the building.
- Air India and Boeing launched formal investigations with Boeing sending experts, Tata Group offered financial aid to victim families, and Prime Minister Modi visited the Gujarat crash site on Friday.
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A plane from Air India crashed in Ahmedabad. The plane crashed shortly after take-off. There are hundreds of dead.
By Christian Edwards, Antoinette Radford and Rhea Mogul, CNN In the blue skies of western India, flight AI171 struggled to gain altitude. The London-bound plane had barely cleared the runway at Ahmedabad airport on Thursday before plummeting to the ground. Video footage shows the plane slowly plummeting behind residential buildings, then a massive fireball erupting. Only one of the 242 people on board the Air India flight survived, according to …
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El EstímuloAir India’s aircraft heading for London crashed on Thursday with more than 240 passengers on board shortly after the departure at Ahmedabad airport in north-west India, authorities reported. Air India’s AI 171 flight to London-Gatwick airport carried 169 Indian passengers, 53 British, seven Portuguese and one Canadian, the airline reported. India’s civil aviation authority said the ship was traveling with two pilots and 10 crew members. “The inj…
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