Air India says the flight included Indians, British, Portuguese and a Canadian

Air India plane bound for London crashes moments after take off in Ahmedabad

An Air India plane bound for London with 242 people on board crashed minutes after taking off from India’s western city of Ahmedabad on Thursday, the airline and police said, and India’s federal health minister said that “many people” were killed.

At least 30 bodies have been recovered from a building at the site of the crash, rescue personnel at the site said.

More people were trapped inside, the rescuers said.