Ahmedabad, June 12 -- An eyewitness on the ground recounted the Gujarat plane crash horrors and said that he saw fire, clouds of smoke and debris scattered all around.

An Air India flight from Ahmedabad to London with 242 people on board crashed into a doctors' hostel near the Ahmedabad Airport shortly after taking off on Thursday, a senior police officer said.

Speaking with ANI, the eyewitness said, "I saw fire, clouds of smoke, debris scattered all around. I couldn't understand anything. Later, I realised that the plane had crashed here. The police then cordoned off the area."

Speaking about the building in which the plane crashed, the eyewitness said, "It is a residential building, doctors live there."

Another eyewitness recalled t...