(12 Jun 2025)
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Ahmedabad, India – 12 June 2025
1. Top shot of building hit by aircraft, debris
2. Various of debris on building
3. Wide of site where aircraft crashed
4. Various of broken parts of aircraft
STORYLINE:
An Air India passenger plane bound for London with more than 240 people on board crashed Thursday in India’s northwestern city of Ahmedabad.
Media reports cited local police as saying there was one survivor and suggesting it was a British national.
It was not immediately clear why the plane crashed shortly after takeoff.
The aircraft was a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, a widebody, twin-engine plane.
This is the first crash ever of Dreamliner since it went into service in 2009, according to the Aviation Safety Network database.
Air India said there were 169 Indians, 53 Britons, seven Portuguese and one Canadian on the flight bound for London Gatwick Airport.
Part of the plane fell on top of a medical college in Ahmedabad, killing at least five medical students and injuring nearly 50, according to a medical association.
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