India, June 12 -- An Air India aircraft carrying 242 people crashed near the Ahmedabad airport on Thursday afternoon, triggering panic and chaos in the surrounding areas. The plane crashed in Meghaninagar area near Ahmedabad airport.

A viral video shows passengers, who were boarding another flight, seeing smoke rising from the site of the crash of the Gatwick (London)-bound Air India Boeing 787-8. Visuals from the scene showed thick smoke rising from the crash site.

Posted on X (formerly Twitter) by news agency ANI, the video was captioned, "The moment when passengers boarding a flight saw smoke from the Air India 171 crash in Ahmedabad, Gujarat."

The flight, which was going to London, took off at 1:38 pm, according to the Director Gen...