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Flight carrying 242 folks certain for London has crashed in Ahmedabad, India
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Flight carrying 242 folks certain for London has crashed in Ahmedabad, India

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Firefighters work on the website of an airplane that crashed in India’s northwestern metropolis of Ahmedabad in Gujarat state on Thursday.

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MUMBAI, India — An Air India flight with 242 passengers and 12 crew certain for London crashed shortly after departure in India’s northwestern metropolis of Ahmedabad immediately. The Indian well being minister, Jagat Prakash Nada, mentioned many individuals have been killed, however supplied no additional info.

Footage posted by the outlet Press Belief of India confirmed the aircraft sinking over a residential quarter after which the sound of a blast, and a ball of fireside. The Press Belief then shared photos of medics speeding casualties on stretchers. The aircraft crashed simply 5 minutes after taking off, in accordance with Faiz Ahmed Kidwai, the director common of the directorate of civil aviation, who spoke to The Related Press.

It was not clear what number of casualties there have been from the flight, a Boeing 787 which was certain for London’s Gatwick Airport. However Air India mentioned on X that the flight was carrying 169 Indian nationals, 53 British nationals, one Canadian and 7 Portuguese. A number of movies shared by residents appeared to indicate charred our bodies and physique components on the website of the crash.

People watch smoke rising after an airplane crashed in Ahmedabad, Gujarat state, India, on Thursday.

Individuals watch smoke rising after an airplane crashed in Ahmedabad, Gujarat state, India, on Thursday.

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Casualties can also embrace folks impacted after the aircraft, or components of the aircraft, smashed into the cafeteria of a hostel for male college students of the BJ Medical Faculty in Ahmedabad, in accordance with a hospital official who declined to be named as a result of she was not approved to talk to the media. She mentioned the hospital was taking in casualties presently.

One other physician on the trauma heart the place casualties have been being handled mentioned to date, 90 folks had been purchased in. She additionally requested anonymity as a result of she wasn’t approved to talk to the media. Reuters reported that at the least 30 our bodies had been recovered from a constructing on the website of the aircraft crash.

The Indian prime minister Narendra Modi referred to as the crash a “tragedy” that had “stunned and saddened us.”

“It is heartbreaking beyond words. In this sad hour, my thoughts are with everyone affected by it,” he wrote on X.

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Natarajan Chandrasekaran, the chairman of the Tata Group that operates Air India mentioned, in a press release that flight AI171 was concerned in a “tragic incident.” He mentioned the conglomerate was helping the emergency response groups and offering care and assist to these impacted. The airport the place the flight departed from has now suspended operations.

That is the primary crash of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, in accordance with the Aviation Security Community. The plane gave a “Mayday” name, signaling an emergency earlier than it crashed. A Boeing spokesman informed The Related Press that it was conscious of the experiences of the crash and was “working to gather more information.” The 787 was launched in 2009 and greater than 1,000 are working globally, in accordance with Boeing.

The New York Instances reported in April 2024 that the Federal Aviation Administration was investigating claims made by a whistleblower – a Boeing engineer – who claimed that sections of the 787 Dreamliner have been improperly mounted collectively and will break aside after hundreds of journeys. On the time, Boeing informed the Instances that they’d “determined that this is not an immediate safety of flight issue.”

People stand around debris at the site of an airplane that crashed in India's northwestern city of Ahmedabad in Gujarat state, Thursday, June12, 2025. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

Individuals stand round particles on the website of an airplane that crashed in India’s northwestern metropolis of Ahmedabad in Gujarat state on Thursday.

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The final main aircraft crash in India was in 2020, when a Boeing 737 skidded off a hilltop runway, killing 21 folks.

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The crash provides to Boeing’s woes — its repute has been battered after two lethal accidents involving its 737 Max 8; one in 2019 the place an Ethiopian Airways flight crashed, killing all 149 folks overseas and in October 2018, the place a Lion Air flight crashed within the sea close to the Indonesian capital Jakarta, killing all 189 passengers onboard.

The crash comes simply days forward of the Paris Air Present the place Boeing is anticipated to host a big pavilion.

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