A large passenger plane with 242 people on board crashed in the city of West India of Ahmedabad Thursday, shortly after leaving London Gatwick Airport. Officials say that 241 of passengers and crew were confirmed dead but A passenger survived. The casualties were also reported on the ground.
“Air India confirms that Ai171 flight, from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick, has been involved today in an accident after takeoff,” the airline said in a statement Posted on social networks.
The plane, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft, left Ahmedabad Airport at 13:38 hours. The plane went down minutes later in a residential area, hitting buildings, including the dining area of a University of Medicine, according to officials.
Although the agents of the law initially told journalists that no one on the plane survived, officials later confirmed A man had survived and was being treated in a local hospital.
This is what we know so far.
Air India Plane crashes in Ahmedabad
Faiz Ahmed Kidwai, the director general of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation of India, told Associated Press that the Ai171 flight was crashed five minutes after the departure of Ahmedabad Airport. The live tracking site Flight radar He reported that he received a final signal from the aircraft only after he took off.
Flight radar data showed that the ray comes briefly with a maximum barometric altitude of 625 feet before starting to descend at a vertical speed 475 feet per minute – An abrupt immersion.
Video shared online and verified by CBS News showed the low jet over the buildings Near the airport, going down to the ground and disappearing from the sight. A huge ball of fire and smoke exploded seconds later.
Saurabh Sirohiya/Nurphoto through Getty Images 
What caused the India Air shock?
The cause of Thursday’s fall was not immediately clear. The Indian Aircraft Accident Investigation Office leads the investigation.
The United States National Transportation Board confirmed He will lead a north -American team who is currently heading to India to help local authorities. Officials of the United States Federal Aviation Administration also said that they deploy teams in India to help research next to the NTSB.
“When an international incident occurs, this government runs the investigation,” the FAA said in a statement. “If attendance is requested, the NTSB is the official representative of the United States and the FAA provides technical support. We are ready to launch a team immediately in coordination with the NTSB.”
Air India and Boeing said they are willing to cooperate and support the research.
In the videos of the accident, the aircraft seemed to be reducing his landing team and raised at a time on the flight when they had to have been invested, told CBS News, former NTSB president Robert Sumwalt.
Aviation consultant John M. Cox told the AP that the aircraft had its nose and did not warm up, that researchers are expected to look.
“At this moment, it is very, very, very early, we do not know much,” he said. “But 787 has a very extensive flight data monitoring: the flight data recorder parameters are thousands, so that once we get this recorder, they will be able to know quickly enough what happened.”
The black boxes of the plane, which consist of the flight data engraver and the voice engraver, had not yet been recovered.
Mehmet Yaren Bozgun/Anadolu through Getty Images 
India Civil Aviation Minister Mohan Naidu Kinjaraapu said he was “shocked and devastated” by the fall.
“We are on the highest alert,” Kinjaraapu write In a post on social media. “I am personally following the situation and has directed all the agencies of response to aviation and the emergency to take fast and coordinated actions.”
The Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, said that “the tragedy in Ahmedabad has stunned and saddened us” and called it “wealthy beyond the words.”
The map shows where the Air India plane crashed
The Air India clash took place in the city of Ahmedabad, near the International Sardar Airport Vallabhbhai Patel, where the plane had left. Ahmedabad is in the state of West India of Gujarat.
Mehmet Yaren Bozgun/Anadolu through Getty Images 
Victims of the fall of Air India
Air India said in a statement that 241 people on the plane died in the accident. “The only survivor is being treated in a hospital”, said in a statement.
The passengers of the plane were identified as 169 Indian national, 53 British national, seven Portuguese nationals and a Canadian national, said Air India. The airline said that the survivor is a British national of Indian origin.
The Indian media identified the citizen of the United Kingdom, Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, as the man in a local hospital who said he had survived the fall. He had been listed as a passenger of the 11th seat of the Flight Manifesto shared by the Indian authorities.
Dr. Dhaval Gameti at Ahmedabad Civil Hospital told the AP that he had examined Ramesh. While the survivor “was disoriented with multiple injuries throughout the body … It seems to be safe,” said Gameti.
At least five medical students died when part of the plane arrived at the dining area of BJ Medical College, Divyansh Singh, the vice -president of the Federation of the entire Medical Association of India, told the AP. Singh said that almost 50 people in the building are injured, some criticism.
“We are in close contact with our colleagues in the hospital who are looking for more feared people buried in waste,” he said.
The Indian army assisted the civil authorities to combine through waste and helping to treat the injured, the AP reported.
London Gatwick airport said he was working with Air India to set up telephone lines for family members of the AI171 flight passengers.
“London Gatwick is closely linked to Air India and a reception center is being created for relatives on board, where information and support will be provided,” said airport officials in a statement. “British nationals who need consular assistance or who have concerns about friends or family should call 020 7008 5000. Air India has created a number dedicated to the telephony line 1800 5691 444 to provide more information.”
Spotlight on Boeing
The India Air Shock seemed to be the first that involved a Boeing Dreamliner, conform to the statistical summary of the commercial JET accident company between 1954 and 2024.
The aircraft maker has described this model as the “best -selling passenger of all time” of all time. “
“We are in contact with Air India in terms of flight 171 and we are ready to support them. Our thoughts are with passengers, the crew, the first to respond and all affected,” a Boeing spokesman said in a statement to CBS News several hours after the incident.
In Wall Street, BOEING Actions It fell $ 15.34, or 7.2%, to $ 198.66 in previous market negotiation.