Nigeria, June 12 -- An Air India plane carrying 242 people crashed in a residential area shortly after takeoff.

There are no known survivors at the time of this report.

The plane, Flight AI171, was travelling from India's Ahmedabad to London Gatwick airport on Thursday when it crashed.

Air India said there were 169 Indian nationals on the flight. Others were 53 Britons, seven Portuguese nationals and one Canadian, the BBC reports.

The plane crashed into an accommodation used by doctors, and many of the flats used by the doctors were damaged.

According to the city's Police Commissioner G S Malik, it appeared that there were no survivors in the plane crash.

"As the plane had fallen in a residential area which also had offices, some lo...