New Delhi, June 12 -- An Air India Dreamliner carrying 242 passengers and crew crashed shortly after take-off from Ahmedabad on Thursday, in India's first major air accident in nearly five years.

Air traffic control received a distress call from the pilots at 1.38 PM, moments before the aircraft headed for London plunged into doctors' hostel attached to the B.J. Medical College. As per Flightradar 24, a flight tracking platform, signal from the aircraft was lost less than a minute after take-off, while the plane was at 625 ft.

The aircraft had 169 Indian nationals, 53 British nationals, one Canadian national and seven Portuguese nationals. Gujarat's former chief minister Vijay Rupani was among the passengers. The Ahmedabad airport shut ...