(12 Jun 2025)
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Ahmedabad, India – 12 June 2025
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1. Damaged building inside Civil Hospital
2. Wide of heavy police presence in the foreground, damaged building in the background
3. Various of debris and remains of one of the wings of the airplane
4. Tilt from debris to another building damaged by the plane crash
5. Various of debris
6. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Indrajeet Singh Solanki, eyewitness and rescuer:
“In the beginning, I couldn’t understand anything, it was only smoke everywhere. We could see some small parts (of the plane) burning. Just like this wing lying over here.”
7. Various of the wing of the plane lying on the ground
8. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Indrajeet Singh Solanki, eyewitness and rescuer:
“Through the smoke, we kept rescuing injured people and rushed them to the trauma centre in the civil hospital in auto rickshaws. We rushed 9 people to the hospital.”
9. Wide of heavy police presence at site
10. Police officer next to debris
11. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Indrajeet Singh Solanki, eyewitness and rescuer:
“I feel bad that more than 200 people have died, it will be hard to sleep for the next few days at least. But at the time of the accident, we had only one aim – to save lives no matter what happens. There were many volunteers here. Some people came with bulldozers to offer help.”
12. Various of debris
13. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Amrit Jaiswani, local resident:
“I feel very sad. I have never felt this sad ever in my life. The atmosphere and position of this place, it makes me feel pained. I pray to God that such a tragedy should never happen again.”
14. Wide of police presence at the crash site
15. Pan of debris
STORYLINE:
Indian eyewitnesses recounted the moment an Air India plane bound for London crashed shortly after takeoff on Thursday.
“Through the smoke, we kept rescuing injured people and rushed them to the trauma centre in the civil hospital in auto rickshaws, said Indrajeet Singh Solanki, who helped nine people to the hospital.
The plane crashed in a residential area of Ahmedabad, sending a massive fireball into the sky and killing at least 240 people, officials said.
One passenger who was thrown from the plane survived.
The death toll includes medical students who were in a college hostel when the plane hit the building, police said.
Black smoke billowed from the site where the plane crashed and burst into flames near the airport in Ahmedabad, a city of more than 5 million and the capital of Gujarat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state.
Firefighters doused the smoking wreckage of the plane, which would have been fully loaded with fuel shortly after takeoff, and adjacent multistory buildings with water. Charred bodies lay on the ground and parts of the fuselage were scattered around the site.
This is the first crash of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, according to the Aviation Safety Network database.
“I feel very sad. I have never felt this sad ever in my life. The atmosphere and position of this place, it makes me feel pained,” said local resident Amrit Jaiswani.
India’s aviation regulatory body said the aircraft gave a mayday call, signaling an emergency, but then did not respond to the calls made by the airport traffic control.
AP Video shot by Piyush Nagpal and Shonal Ganguly
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