An Air India passenger plane carrying 242 people crashed on Thursday just after takeoff in Ahmedabad, a city in the western Indian state of Gujarat. It was one of the worst aviation disasters in the country’s history.
Ahmedabad’s police commissioner said more than 200 bodies had been recovered from the crash site. The airline released the nationalities of people on board: 169 Indians, 53 Britons, seven Portuguese and one Canadian. The plane crashed into the campus of a local medical college, and the airline said that injured people were being taken to nearby hospitals; it was unclear whether they were passengers or people on the ground.
Video showed enormous plumes of black smoke billowing from the crash site.
Natarajan Chandrasekaran, the chairman of Air India, expressed his “profound sorrow” at the “tragic accident today” in a statement shared on social media by the Tata Group, the airline’s parent company.
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