An Air India flight bound to London and carrying 242 passengers and crew members crashed shortly after taking off from Ahmedabad.
The passengers included 169 Indians, 53 U.K. nationals, seven Portuguese, and one Canadian. India’s federal health minister said that “many people” were killed in the crash, which occurred in a dense civilian area. The flight was a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, marking the first-ever crash of that model.
Firefighters work at the site of an airplane that crashed in India’s northwestern city of Ahmedabad in Gujarat state, India, on Thursday, June 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)
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“The building on which it has crashed is a doctors’ hostel. … We have cleared almost 70% to 80% of the area and will clear the rest soon,” a senior
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