New Delhi, June 12 -- Air India Chairman N. Chandrasekaran issued a statement after a plane, with 242 persons onboard, crashed minutes after takeoff on Thursday, June 12. The Air India plane crashed just outside the Ahmedabad airport in Gujarat and everyone onboard are feared dead. The authorities have not confirmed the number of casualties in the Air India plane crash.

An Air India aircraft, with over 200 persons onboard, travelling to Gatwick airport in London from Gujarat's Ahmedabad crashed. Ahmedabad airport has been shut and all flight operations have been suspended.

In his first statement, the Air India chairman confirmed the Ahmedabad-London Air India Flight 171 crash and said at this hour, the primary focus remains on supportin...