{"id":1619,"date":"2025-06-12T14:55:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T14:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/?p=1619"},"modified":"2025-06-12T14:55:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T14:55:33","slug":"flight-carrying-242-people-bound-for-london-has-crashed-in-ahmedabad-india-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/?p=1619","title":{"rendered":"Flight carrying 242 people bound for London has crashed in Ahmedabad, India : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"


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MUMBAI, India \u2014 An Air India flight with 242 passengers and 12 crew bound for London crashed shortly after departure in India’s northwestern city of Ahmedabad today. The Indian health minister<\/u><\/a>, Jagat Prakash Nada, said many people were killed, but offered no further information.<\/p>\n

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Footage posted by the Press Trust of India<\/a> showed the plane sinking over a residential quarter and then the sound of a blast, and a ball of fire. The Press Trust shared images of medics rushing casualties on stretchers. The plane crashed just five minutes after taking off, according to Faiz Ahmed Kidwai, the director general of the directorate of civil aviation, who spoke to The Associated Press.<\/p>\n

It was not clear how many casualties there were from the flight, a Boeing 787 bound for London’s Gatwick Airport. Air India said on X <\/u><\/a>that the flight was carrying 169 Indian nationals, 53 British nationals, one Canadian and seven Portuguese. Multiple videos shared by residents appeared to show charred bodies and body parts at the site of the crash.<\/p>\n

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Casualties may also include people impacted after the plane, or parts of the plane,<\/u><\/a> smashed into the cafeteria of a hostel<\/u><\/a> for students of the BJ Medical College<\/u><\/a> in Ahmedabad, according to a hospital official who declined to be named because she was not authorized to speak to the media. She said the hospital was taking in casualties. India’s Federation of All India Medical Association (FAIMA) said on X<\/a> that 50 medical students had been admitted to the hospital, at least four students were missing and at least two were in critical condition.<\/p>\n