MailOnline's David Averre explains how one of the world's most advanced passenger jets, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner bound for London Gatwick, crashed near Ahmedabad Airport earlier today.

Shocking images shared to social media showed a huge trail of smoke emanating from the crash site near the international airport this morning

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