India, June 12 -- Keyur Prajapathi, 27, a second-year postgraduate resident doctor at Ahmedabad Civil Hospital, was on duty when he heard a loud noise and thick black smoke rising into the sky outside the window. Within minutes, the phones of Anatomy and his colleagues started ringing.

Prajapathi said it took them some time to figure out that a London-bound Air India plane carrying 242 people had crashed nearby minutes after taking off from the Ahmedabad airport. "I was at the civil hospital on duty when I looked outside the window and saw black smoke. Within seconds, our phones...started to ring. It took me another two to three minutes to understand what had happened," said Anatomy.

Prajapathi said the plane crashed into and severely d...