Police said 265 bodies had been taken to hospital in the main city of India’s western state of Gujarat.
- What happened? -
Air India’s flight 171 issued a mayday call and crashed “immediately after takeoff”, around 1:40 pm (0810 GMT), India’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation said.
Air India said the passengers included 169 Indians, 53 Britons, seven Portuguese nationals and a Canadian.
The plane smashed into a building housing doctors and their families in a crowded residential area of Ahmedabad, a city home to about eight million people.
A resident, who declined to be named, said: “We saw people from the building jumping from the second and third floor to save themselves. The plane was in flames.”
A doctor named Krishna said that “the nose and front wheel landed on the canteen building where students were having lunch.”
- ‘One survivor’ -
Police said 265 bodies had been recovered from the site.
Air India chairman, Natarajan Chandrasekaran, said an emergency centre had been activated and a support team set up for families seeking information.
- Boeing investigating the incident -
The British and US accident investigation agencies said they had sent teams to support the Indian inquiry.
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is the pride of the US company’s catalogue for long-distance planes: a fuel-efficient, wide-body, lightweight aircraft able to transport up to 330 people.
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