The passenger plane bound for Gatwick crashed shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad
Air India plane crash – latest updates
An Air India passenger plane bound for Gatwick airport with more than 240 people on board has crashed shortly after takeoff from the north-western Indian city of Ahmedabad.
Air India flight 171, a Boeing 787-8 (also known as a Dreamliner), came down in the residential area of Meghani Nagar five minutes after taking off at 1.38pm local time, Faiz Ahmed Kidwai, the director general of the directorate of civil aviation, told the Associated Press.
Footage from the near the scene showed smoke billowing from the crash site:
