India, June 12 -- Former India cricketers Harbhajan Singh and Irfan Pathan, along with several IPL franchises, on Thursday mourned the tragic Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad, which had 242 people on board. The London-bound flight crashed shortly after takeoff.

Visuals on social media and news channels showed thick smoke billowing from the crash site near the Ahmedabad airport. According to Faiz Ahmed Kidwai, Director General of the Directorate of Civil Aviation, Air India flight AI 171, a Boeing 787-8, crashed into the residential area of Meghani Nagar just five minutes after it took off at 1:38 p.m. local time.

Taking to X (formerly Twitter), Harbhajan Singh said he was "utterly shocked and deeply anguished" by the tragic incident....