June 12 (Reuters) – More than 100 people were killed when an Air India plane bound for London with 242 people on board crashed minutes after taking off from India’s western city of Ahmedabad on Thursday, authorities said, one of the country’s worst aviation disasters.
Air India Flight AI171 crashed into well- known medical college while students were having lunch inside. EyePress News/Shutterstock
Following are details of some other airline accidents in India in recent years:
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Twenty-one people died when an Air India Express Boeing 737 plane skidded off the runway in the southern city of Kozhikode during heavy rain, plunged into a valley and crashed nose-first into the ground.
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