Ahmed Abad, India (AP) – Officials said the Passenger plane heading to London with more than 240 people on board was crashed on Thursday in the city of Ahmedabad in northwestern India, and there were no known survivors, so the passenger plane heading to London with more than 240 people on board was crashed on Thursday in the city of Ahmedabad in the northwest of India, and there were no known survivors.
Black Smoke ridiculed the site as the plane fell in a inhabited area near the airport in Ahmed Abad, a city of more than 5 million and the capital of Gojarat, the mandate of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Firefighters blocked the smoking wreckage of the plane, which could have been fully loaded with fuel after take -off, and multi -salary buildings adjacent to water. Many charred bodies lie on the ground and one of them was transferred to a stretch by the respondents.
Moody described the accident “snapped beyond words.”
He said on a social networking site: “At this sad watch, my thoughts are affected.”
Indian television news channels reported that the plane crashed on top of the dining area at the Medical College. It was not clear whether there were any medicine students inside the building at the time of the accident.
The tail of the plane with damaged stabilizers is still connected near the top of one building.
“It seems that there are no survivors of the plane crash,” Police Commissioner GS Malik told Associated Press.
He added: “Since the plane fell in a residential area with offices as well, some locals have also died.” “The fine numbers are confirmed about losses.”
The airline said the flight to Gatwick Airport was carrying 242 passengers and crew. Among them, Air India said that there are 169 Indian, 53 British, seven Portuguese and one Canadian.
“The scenes emerging for a plane in London carry many British citizens who are disrupted in the Indian city of Ahmedabad,” said British Prime Minister Kiir Starmer in a statement.
Fayez Ahmed Kidoy, Director General of the Civil Aviation Directorate, told AP Flight Air India 171, Boeing 787-8, which was crashed into a residential area called Megan Nagar after five minutes of take off at 1:38 pm local time. He said that 244 people were on board, and it was not immediately possible to reconcile the contradiction with Air India numbers.
All efforts were made to ensure support for medical aid and support relief on the site, as India’s Minister of Civil Aviation Ram Mohan Naido Kinspago published X.
The first Boeing 787 plane crash
787 Dreamliner is a dual motor plane. This is the first plane crash ever of the Boeing 787, according to the Airlines Safety Network database.
Boeing said he was aware of the accident reports and was “working to collect more information.”
Tell the aviation advisor John M. Cox, CEO of Safety Operating Systems, the US Football Association from Los Angeles that although the first pictures of the accident were bad, it seemed that the plane had been nose and was not climbing, and it is one of the things that investigators would search for.
“At this stage, it is very early, we don’t know much,” he said. “But 787 has a large -scale flight monitoring – the parameters on the flight data recorder are in the thousands – so as soon as we get this recorder, they will be able to know what happened quickly.”
The plane was offered in 2009, and more than 1,000 airlines were delivered, according to Flightradar24.
“Our primary focus is on supporting all affected persons and their families,” said Naratraghan Chandrasikran, Chairman of Air India.
Ali X said that the airline has established an emergency center and a support team for families seeking information about those who were on the trip.
He said: “Our ideas and deepest condolences are with families and loved ones from all those affected by this devastating event.”
The UK is supported by support
British Minister of Cabinet Lucy Powell said the government would provide “all the support that it can” to those affected by the accident.
“This is a story that reveals, and it will undoubtedly lead to a great deal of anxiety and anxiety for many families and societies here and those who are waiting for their loved ones to arrive.”
She added: “We send our deepest sympathy and ideas to all these families, and the government will provide all the support that can be with those in India and those in this country as well.”
Britain has very close relations with India. There were approximately 1.9 million people in the country of Indian lineage, according to the UK Census 2021.
My condolences also flowed from King Charles III, who said that he and his wife, Queen Camilla, were “severely shocked” from the accident.
He said in a statement, “Our special prayers and our deeper sympathy are with families and friends from all those affected by this horrific tragic incident across many countries, where they are waiting for the news of their loved ones.”
Previous incidents in India
It was the last crash of the main passenger plane in India in 2020, when Air India Express Boeing-737 slipped from the hill summit in southern India, killing 21 people.
The worst air disaster in India was on November 12, 1996, when a Saudi airline flight destroyed a mobile next to Kazakhasan flight near Dada’s participant in Harrana State, killing 349 on board the two planes.
The accident comes days before the opening of the Paris Air Show, which is a major aviation exhibition where Boeing and European competitor Airbus will display its planes and the battle of aircraft orders from airline.
Boeing was in a recovery position for more than six years after the Lion Air Flight 610 trip, Boeing 737 Max 8, in the Java Sea off the coast of Indonesia minutes after taking off from Jakarta, killing all 189 people on board. Five months later, Ethiopian Airlines 302, Boeing 737, was a maximum of 8, after taking off from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, killing 157 passengers and crew members.
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Roy mentioned from New Delhi. He contributed to this report in London, Nika Walters, David Range, Adam, partner and Lorian Bellinger in Bangkok.