Boeing 787 Dreamliner — with 242 people on board crashed into a medical college complex in the Meghaninagar area moments after taking off from the airport on Thursday afternoon.

One of the Brits on board the doomed Air India flight which crashed shortly after take off on 12 June shared some emotional words with his loved ones just moments before the plane plummeted into a building. Flight AI171 was bound for London, Gatwick when it took off from Ahmedabad.

An Air India plane with more than 200 people on board crashed near the airport in India's city of Ahmedabad. Authorities fear no survivors.

This comes nearly a month after a Turkish company managing operations at nine major Indian airports lost its security clearance, following Ankara's stance supporting Pakistan during Operation Sindoor.

An early focus of the probe includes a possible loss or reduction of thrust.

open image in gallery Vishwash Kumar Ramesh told Indian media that he was on the Air India flight ... Mr Ramesh was in India for a few days to visit family but has lived in London with his wife ...