An Air India passenger plane carrying 242 people that was bound for London crashed in western India on Thursday, the airline said on social media.
Flight 171, which crashed shortly after takeoff outside of the Ahmedabad airport in the state of Gujarat, was headed for London’s Gatwick Airport, Air India said.
There was no immediate information about survivors, but India’s health minister, Jagat Prakash Nadda, said that “many people” had died. The airline said that those who were injured were being taken to hospitals.
“Shocked and devastated to learn about the flight crash in Ahmedabad,” India’s minister of civil aviation, Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu, wrote on social media. “We are on highest alert.”
The plane crashed near the airport in the city of Ahmedabad, in a residential area on the campus of a local medical college, according to an official from the Bharatiya Janata Party, the state’s governing party.
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