Raipur, June 13 -- Chhattisgarh Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Sharma on Friday expressed deep sorrow over the loss of lives in the Air India plane crash in Gujarat's Ahmedabad that claimed 241 lives a day earlier.

"May God give strength to the families of the deceased... I am deeply saddened that Vijay Rupani is no more. This is a matter of learning why all this happened," Sharma told ANI.

The AI-171 Boeing Dreamliner 787-8 airplane bound for London's Gatwick had crashed shortly after it took off from the Ahmedabad International Airport on Thursday. The airlines said only one out of the 242 people on board the aircraft survived the crash.

The Air India flight to London crashed soon after it took off from the Ahmedabad International Airpo...