An Indian bride heading to Britain to meet her husband for the first time since their wedding is among the 260 people feared to have died in the Air India disaster.

Khushboo Rajpurohit, 21, was on board the London Gatwick-bound aircraft when it crashed moments after take-off from Ahmedabad Airport in the northwestern Indian city of Gujarat this morning.

Terrifying CCTV footage shows doomed Air India flight 171 taking off and then plunging into the ground and exploding into a deadly fireball.

The plane carried 242 passengers but at least 260 people, including some victims on the ground, are thought to have died.

Ms Rajpurohit had been on the way to visit her husband, London student Vipul Singh Rajpurohit, before the tragedy.