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The airline says 242 passengers and crew members were in 171 flights from Ahmedabad to London Gatvik.
More than 200 people have been killed when Air India’s flight crashed shortly after taking off from Ahmedabad Airport in western India, the authorities said.
Boeing 787-8 aircraft related to London Gatwick Airport carried 242 passengers and crew when it fell on a residential area on Thursday, crashing into a medical college hostel outside the airport at lunch.
City police commissioner GS Malik told Reuters that 204 bodies had been recovered from the crash site.
Malik said that the restored bodies could be included in both the passengers and people on the ground.
Later, Indian media reported that at least one person had survived the crash.
“The police found one survivor at 11a … One survivor has been found in the hospital and is being treated,” the Indian news agency Ani quoted GS Malik.
Filmed materials showed that smoke was flowing out of the crash site. The airplane’s body parts were scattered around the building where it crashed, showed photos and videos from the area. The airplane’s tail was stuck on the top of the building.
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According to air traffic control at Ahmedabad Airport, the plane made a Mayday call, signaling an emergency, but then there was no answer, Reuters reported.
Aviation tracking site FlightTradar24 said the aircraft is a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, a wide body, twin motor aircraft, one of the most modern passenger aircraft that serves.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who comes from Gujarat, where the crash was held, said the disaster “stunned and saddened”.
“It’s heart -breaking,” Modi posted X. “In this sad hour, my thoughts are with all their affected.”
Aviation Minister Ram Mohan’s hate kinjarap said he was “shocked and destroyed” in the crash, and his “thoughts and prayers are with all those on board and their families.”
“Rescue teams are mobilized and all efforts are made to provide medical assistance and assistance support to the site,” he wrote X.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said in a statement that scenes were “devastating” at the scene.
The United Kingdom has cooperated with the Indian authorities to urgently identify the facts around the crash and support the affected, the Foreign Office in London said.
The United Kingdom Government Air Investigation Unit (AAB) announced that it would send a “multidisciplinary investigation team” to support the investigation of India on the causes of the emergency.
According to the aviation safety network database, this was the first recorded Boeing 787 aircraft crash.
Aviation analyst Alex Macheras said al-Jazeera that Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner is a good security record.
“787 has served for 15 years. This is a mid -level passenger aircraft, one of the latest of Boeing for the development and introduction of carbon fiber aircraft,” he said.
“In fact, in 15 years of commercial service, Boeing 787 Dreamliner has never been involved in an accident or body loss or fatal accident.”
The last fatal aircraft crash in India was in 2020 and had an aircraft from Air India Express, a carrier cheap hand. Twenty -one person was killed when the airplane beat the treadmill Kozhikode at the International Airport in southern India.
