12/06/2025
WE Extend Our Deepest Condolences to the families and loved ones of those lost in today’s tragic plane crash in India. May the departed rest in eternal peace.
One person survives Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad that kills 241
An Air India passenger plane bound for London crashed into a medical college in the northwestern city of Ahmedabad after takeoff, killing more than 240 people in one of India’s worst airline disasters in decades, officials said, with one survivor among the passengers.
Air India confirmed that 241 of the 242 people on Air India Flight 171 died.
Vidhi Chaudhary, a top state police officer in Ahmedabad, said medical students who were in the college’s hostel when the Boeing 787 plane hit the building have also been killed.
At Ahmedabad’s Civil Hospital, Dr Dhaval Gameti said he had examined the lone survivor of the crash brought in, whom he identified as Vishwashkumar Ramesh. “He was disoriented with multiple injuries all over his body,” Gameti told The Associated Press. “But he seems to be out of danger.”
The flight crashed shortly after takeoff from the Indian city. The airline said in a statement that the carried 169 Indian nationals, 53 British nationals, one Canadian and seven Portuguese.
Authorities in London confirmed that the plane was due to land at the city’s Gatwick airport at 6:25pm local time (17:25GMT).
