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1 survivor found in London-bound Air India flight AI171 crash that killed more than 240

Boeing-operated flight carried passengers from India, UK, Portugal, Canada. A 40-year-old British national survived

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

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

At least one person survived when a London-bound passenger plane crashed on Thursday in the Indian city of Ahmedabad, with 242 on board, a state health official said.

“Yes, one survivor is confirmed,” said Dhananjay Dwivedi, principal secretary of Gujarat state’s health department. They were being treated in hospital, he added without further details.

The Hindustan Times reported that 40-year-old British man Vishwash Kumar Ramesh survived the crash. He told the newspaper: “Thirty seconds after take-off, there was a loud noise and then the plane crashed. It all happened so quickly.”

More than 200 people were killed when an Air India plane crashed minutes after taking off from the western city of Ahmedabad on Thursday, authorities said, in the world’s worst aviation disaster in a decade.

The plane came down in a residential area, crashing into a medical college hostel outside the airport during lunch hour. It was headed for Gatwick Airport, south of the British capital.

City police chief G.S. Malik said 204 bodies had been recovered from the crash site, adding that with the plane crashing in a residential area with offices, “some locals would have also died”.

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‘I don’t know how I’m alive’: sole survivor found in Air India flight that killed 241

‘I don’t know how I’m alive’: sole survivor found in Air India flight that killed 241
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