India, June 12 -- A London-bound Air India plane with 242 people on board crashed shortly after take-off from the western Indian city of Ahmedabad Thursday.
There are possibly no survivors of the accident, the worst air crash in India in recent years, news agencies reported quoting the city police chief.
Ahmedabad's city police commissioner G.S. Malik told media that the victims also included some residents of the area around the crash site.
The Flight AI 171, bound for London's Gatwick, took off from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad at 1:38 PM local time, or 4:08 AM ET.
The plane crashed into a residential area just outside the airport within seconds of take-off. It was engulfed in flames after slamming into ...