Ahmedabad, June 12 -- An Air India flight bound for London with 242 people on board crashed near Ahmedabad airport on Thursday afternoon.
Sources said the aircraft lost contact within minutes of takeoff and went down in the Meghani Nagar area. Rescue operations were on. National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) teams were brought in from Gandhinagar.
The Air India flight, a Boeing Dreamliner 787, crashed in a densely populated area near the airport. Immediately after the crash, local residents rushed to the area to help with rescue efforts.
According to Air India, there were 169 Indian nationals, 53 British, one Canadian and seven Portuguese nationals on board. There were 12 crew members.
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