Air India Flight 171 crashed in Ahmedabad after taking off - heading to London Gatwick.

Air India Flight 171 crashed in Ahmedabad — a city of about 5 million people — roughly five minutes after taking off heading to London Gatwick.
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“It appears there are no survivors in the plane crash,” Commissioner G.S. Malik said, adding that “some locals would have also died” in the buildings it crashed into.

THERE WAS ONE SURVIVOR:
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“Exact figures on casualties are being ascertained,” he said.

The pilot made a “Mayday” call seconds after takeoff — then shocking videos show the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner descending over the busy city and bursting into a massive fireball, with thick black smoke soon consuming the skyline.

The plane smashed directly into a doctors’ residence, with photos showing the back of the jet sticking out of the building.

Distressing images showed charred bodies around a flattened area of the city.

The 242 people included 217 adults and 11 children, a source told Reuters. Of them, 169 were Indian nationals, 53 were Britons, seven were Portuguese and one was Canadian, Air India said.

“The scenes emerging of a London-bound plane carrying many British nationals crashing in the Indian city of Ahmedabad are devastating,” British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said.

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi called it “heartbreaking beyond words.”

Video on local channels showed thick, black columns of smoke billowing from the crash site near the airport in the northwestern Indian city.

“Rescue teams have been mobilized, and all efforts are being made to ensure medical aid and relief support are being rushed to the site,” said India’s aviation minister, Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu, according to the BBC.

All flights were suspended by the Ahmedabad airport.

Gatwick airport confirmed that the flight, which had been due to arrive at 6:25 p.m. in London, had crashed on departure.

The disaster was the first-ever crash of a Boeing 787 aircraft, according to the Aviation Safety Network database.

Boeing said it was aware of the reports of the crash and was “working to gather more information.”

The 787 Dreamliner is a widebody, twin-engine plane introduced in 2009, and more than 1,000 have been delivered to dozens of airlines, according to the Flightradar24 website.