London-bound plane carrying 242 people crashes shortly after take-off in Ahmedabad, western India, BBC reports.
According to the report by BBC, the London-bound plane , flight AI171 was travelling from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick.
There were 169 Indian nationals on the flight, 53 Britons, seven Portuguese nationals and one Canadian, Air India says
Videos show scenes of devastation in the residential area where the plane came down. The plane crashed into accommodation used by doctors – one woman describes how her son survived by jumping from the second floor window.
Tracking website Flightradar24 says it received the last signal from the aircraft at 625 feet (190m) “just seconds after take off”
Indian foreign ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal, at his weekly press briefing, calls the crash “a very tragic accident”.
“The rescue operations are on. We need to wait a little more time for exact details to be put out,” he says.
But he adds: “We have lost a lot of people. We extend our deepest condolences to all those who have lost their loved ones.”