{"id":602,"date":"2025-06-12T19:31:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T19:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/air-india-plane-to-london-crashes-with-242-on-board\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T19:31:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T19:31:45","slug":"air-india-plane-to-london-crashes-with-242-on-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/air-india-plane-to-london-crashes-with-242-on-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India plane to London crashes with 242 on board"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A plane carrying 242 people, including 53 British nationals, to London Gatwick has crashed in India.<\/p>\n

Local police said there appeared to be no survivors after the Air India Flight 171 came down in a residential area near Ahmedabad Airport shortly after take-off.<\/p>\n

But British man Vishwash Kumar Ramesh<\/strong> survived the crash, his family members have told Sky News.<\/p>\n

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He told the Hindustan Times<\/strong> newspaper he heard a “loud noise” around 30 seconds after take-off before the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner went down.<\/p>\n

“It all happened so quickly,” he said, adding that he suffered “impact injuries” to his chest, eyes and feet. “When I got up, there were bodies all around me. I was scared. I stood up and ran.”<\/p>\n

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A fireball can be seen in footage as the plane crashed, hitting a doctors’ college residential quarters, in the north-western city in Gujarat state.<\/p>\n

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A police officer told the Reuters news agency more than 290 people have been killed.<\/p>\n

Three Britons who died in the crash have been named.<\/p>\n

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In a statement posted on Facebook, Gloucester Muslim Community said Akeel Nanabawa, his wife Hannaa and their four-year-old daughter Sara had died in the crash.<\/p>\n

They said: “No words can truly ease the pain of such a profound loss, but we pray that the family may find solace in the tremendous outpouring of compassion and solidarity from communities across the world.”<\/p>\n

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City police chief Kanan Desai earlier said bodies recovered from the crash site could include those on board the flight and those on the ground.<\/p>\n

Video circulating on social media shows massive plumes of thick black smoke rising into the sky after the crash.<\/p>\n

Other images captured what appears to be part of the aircraft’s tail after it crashed into the roof of the BJ Medical College Hostel in the Meghaninagar area.<\/p>\n

Air India said the flight, which departed from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick<\/strong> at 1.38pm local time, was carrying 242 passengers and crew members.<\/p>\n

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They include 169 Indian nationals, 53 British nationals, seven Portuguese nationals and one Canadian national.<\/p>\n

Tata Sons, which owns the airline, said it will give around £86,000 to the families of each person who died, cover the medical expenses of those injured, and provide support to rebuild the medical hostel.<\/p>\n

Ahmedabad Airport said the plane crashed “shortly after take-off, outside the airport”. Flights were suspended until shortly after 4pm local time.<\/p>\n

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