A passenger plane heading to London, England, carrying 242 people, crashed shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad, India, on Thursday. Footage shows the Air India Boeing 787-8 plane flying low above a residential area before crashing, resulting in a ball of flames emerging from the impact site.

Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, a British national, appears to be the only survivor of Air India flight 171, which crashed with 242 people aboard.

Bhoomi Chauhan remembers being angry and frustrated. Bumper-to-bumper traffic had delayed her car journey to Ahmedabad airport - so much so that she missed her Air India flight to London Gatwick by just 10 minutes. Ms Chauhan, a business administration student who lives in Bristol with her husband, had been visiting western India for a holiday.

Indian investigators have recovered the digital flight data recorder or the black box of the Air India flight that crashed a day earlier. The crash on Thursday killed 241 people on board and several people on the ground.

Rescuers searched for missing people and aircraft debris in charred buildings after more than 240 people were killed in an Air India plane crash.

Air India flight 171 crashed on a building minutes after takeoff near the airport in India’s western city of Ahmedabad.

An Air India plane crashed soon after takeoff from the city of Ahmedabad on Thursday.There were 242 people on board, including 10 cabin crew and two pilots.One passenger has been found alive, India's home minister said.

Vishwash Kumar Ramesh was the sole survivor of Air India flight 171, which crashed seconds after takeoff on Thursday.

The lone passenger who survived the Air India crash that killed 241 people onboard couldn’t believe he was alive when he opened his eyes, surrounded by flames, debris and charred bodies.

A London-bound passenger jet ploughed into a residential area of India's western Ahmedabad city on June 12, 2025, killing at least 265 people on board and on the ground. Social media was soon awash with misused visuals including old clips that depict a plane crash in Nepal and an incident on a Ryanair flight.