Air India flight to London crash with 240 including Canada, on board – National

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says one Canadian was on Air India’s aircraft, which crashed on Thursday morning in the Indian city of Ahmedabad, and the city authorities said at least 240 people on board and were killed on the spot.

Karney said his thoughts are with loved ones more than 240 passengers on the airplane crashed, and many details still appear from the local authorities.

Destroyed to find out about London -related Air India aircraft crash in Ahmedabad, ”Karney wrote X.” Canadian transport officials are in close contact with colleagues, and I regularly receive updates when the reaction to this tragedy is expanding. ”

A Canadian citizen is believed to be in the Air India flight, is a dentist at Nirali Surehkumar Patel from Missuuga, Ont., Her family approved the Canadian press. Global news has not independently checked the identity.

Global things Canada says that, due to privacy, it could not confirm the Canadians on board, but said it was ready to provide consular assistance.

On local television channels, which seem to be in the populated area near the airport, on local television channels could see exciting smoke from the crash, and police commissioner GS Malik told the Associated Press, possibly some locals may have died because the plane fell in a residential area with offices.

“It seems that there are no survivors in the aircraft,” Malik said.

The cause of the accident is not yet known.

Vidhi Chaudhary, the highest official of the State Police in the city, said that one passenger survived, confirmed by Indian Interior Minister Amit Chess.

Chaudhary said that medical students who were in the college hostel when the plane hit the building was among of at least 240 people who were killed in an accident shortly after taking off.

Firefighters caused airplane smoking wrecks that would be fully loaded with fuel shortly after take -off, and adjacent high -rise buildings with water. The addicted bodies lay on the ground and the fuselage parts were scattered through the area. The Indian army teams helped the civilian authorities to clear debris and help treat the wounded.

Video in the social media shows that the jet is slowly descending as if it were a descent. As soon as it disappeared behind the rows of houses, the sky filled a giant fire ball. AP’s ability to check the video by coordinating the airplane flight from the runway to the crash site and the nearby residential area.

At the crash site, the aircraft tail cone with damaged stabilizer fins, which were still attached to it, was placed near one of the top of the building.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called the accident “heart -breaking words”.

“In this sad hour, my thoughts are about all the affected,” he said in a social media record.

Among the dead were Sambit Patra, the legislature of the Modi ruling Bharatiya Janata party, said Gudjarat’s former chief minister Vijay Rupani.

Vice President of all Indian Medical Association Federation Divyansh Singh said at least five students in the College of Medicine had been killed and 50 were injured. Singh said some of them are in critical condition, and many people are “frightened of buried in debris”.

Air India announced that a flight related to London Gatvik airport carries 242 passengers and crew, with 169 Indians, 53 British, seven Portuguese and one Canadians on board. The Boeing 787-8 crashed into a residential area called Meghani Nagar five minutes after taking off at 1:38 pm (08:08 GMT), said Faiz Ahmed Kidwai, Director General of Civil Aviation Directorate.

Every effort was made to provide medical assistance and assistance support on the site, Indian Minister of Civil Aviation, Ram Mohan’s hatred, posted X.

According to the aviation safety network database, this is the first Boeing 787 Dreamliner crash. Boeing said it was “work to collect more information”.

The Indian Aviation Authority said the aircraft made a Mayday call signaling the emergency, but then did not respond to airport traffic control calls.

Aviation consultant John M. Coks, CEO of Safety Opering Systems, said around Los Angeles that although the first emergency images were bad, it turned out that the aircraft had a nose up and not climbed, which is one of the things investigators would look at.

“At this point, it’s very, very, very early; we don’t know much,” he said. “But 787 is a very wide range of flight data – the parameters in the flight data recorder are in thousands – so when we get this recorder, they will be able to find out quite quickly what happened.”

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The wide body, twin engine aircraft was introduced in 2009, and more than 1,000 were delivered to dozens of airlines, according to FlightTradar24.

Air India Chairman Natarayan Chandrase Ekaran said that “our focus is now on support of all affected people and their family”.

“Our thoughts and deepest sympathy is with everything this devastating event affected by families and loved ones,” he said.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer called the accident “devastating”, and British cabinet minister Lucy Powella said the government would provide “all the support it can”, those affected by the crash.

“This is the story of the story, and it will no doubt create tremendous excitement and concern for many families and communities here, as well as those waiting for their relatives to arrive,” she told the legislators in the lower house.

“We send all these families deepest condolences and thoughts, and the government will provide all the support it can with the people of India and that country,” she added.

Britain has very close ties with India. According to the British census of 2021, nearly 1.9 million people were census in India.

Condolence also rained from King Charles III, who said he and his wife Queen Kamilla were “desperately shocked” for the crash.

“Our special prayers and the deepest possible sympathy are for the families and friends of all people affected by this terribly tragic incident in so many nations,” he said in a statement.

The last largest passenger aircraft crash in India was in 2020, when Air India Express Boeing-737 slipped to the top of the mountain in southern India, killing 21 people.

The worst air disaster in India was on November 12, 1996, when the Saudi Arabia Airlines flight collided with Midair with Kazakhstan’s airline flight near Charki Dadri Harjan, killing all 349 on both aircraft.

The crash occurs days before the opening of the Paris Air Exhibition, which is an important aviation exhibition, where Boeing and European competitor Airbus will showcase their airplane and will fight for airplane customer jet orders.

Boeing has been in recovery mode more than six years after the Lion Air Flight 610, Boeing 737 Max 8, which came from Jakarta to the Java Sea at the Indonesian coast, killing all 189 people on board. Five months later, the Ethiopian airline Flight 302, Boeing 737 Max 8, crashed after taking off from Addisabeb, Ethiopia, killing 157 passengers and crew members.

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– Associated Press journalist Rajesh Roy reported from Newlin. Sheikh Saaliqs in Srinagar, India, Pan Pylas, Kelvin Chan and Brian Melly in London and Annika Volters, David Rising, Adam Shrek and Lorian Belangers in Bangkok participated in this report.