Live updates: Plane carrying 242 crashes in India, at least one passenger reportedly survives
An Air India plane crashed Thursday near a major international airport in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad, the airline and the country’s government said.
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-An Air India plane carrying 242 people crashed today near a major international airport in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad, the airline and the country’s government said.
-The city’s police commissioner said that there appeared to be no survivors from Flight 171, which was flying from Ahmedabad to London. Police said the bodies of more than 200 victims had been taken to local hospitals.
-But Air India CEO Campbell Wilson later reported that injured passengers had been taken to local hospitals, indicating there may have been survivors.
-Indian media reports say a British national survived the crash. The Hindustan Times reports that the 40-year-old British man told them, “Thirty seconds after take-off, there was a loud noise and then the plane crashed. It all happened so quickly.”
-Twelve crew members were among the 242 people aboard the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner when it crashed into a residential area just before 5 a.m. ET. The passenger breakdown was 169 Indian nationals, 53 British nationals, seven Portuguese nationals and one Canadian national, Air India said.
