Rescue teams comb site of Air India crash that killed at least 265
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Rescue personnel stand next to the wreckage of an Air India aircraft, bound for London's Gatwick Airport, which crashed during take-off from an airport in Ahmedabad, India June 12, 2025. — Reuters
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Rescue teams along with Sniffer dogs confronted the site of a London -bound passenger jet crash on Friday, which moved to a residential area of Ahmedabad, India, killing at least 265 people on the board and ground.
A man riding in Air India Boeing 787-8 Dream Liner was miraculously alive with a 242 passengers and crew-fire accidents, leaving the plane leaving the second floor of the hostel for medical staff from a nearby hospital.
Witnesses said the nose and front wheel landed on a canteen building where students were lunching.
Deputy Commissioner of Police Kannan Desai said 265 bodies have been counted so far – which has suggested that at least 24 people died on the ground – but with the recovery of more bodies and body organs, the number could increase.
Interior Minister Amit Shah said in a statement on Thursday, “The official number of casualties will be announced only after the DNA testing is completed”, adding that “families whose abroad are already being made aware, and their DNA samples will be taken.”
Prime Minister Narendra Modi described the Air India Flight 171 accident as “to break the heart from words”.
The airline said there were 169 Indian passengers, 53 British, seven Portuguese, and a flight to London’s Gatok Airport in Canada, as well as 12 crew members.
Air India said the only survivor of the plane – a British citizen of the Indian -generation, known as Vishush Kumar Ramesh, is being treated at the hospital.
“I don’t know how I got out of the plane”, his brother Nayan Kumar Ramesh, 27, told the UK Press Association in Leicester.
‘Last Call’
In Ahmedabad, relatives of passenger relatives gathered at an emergency center on Friday to give DNA samples to identify their loved ones.
Ashfaq Nanabawa, 40, said that he came to find his cousin alone Nanabwa, who was riding with his wife and three -year -old daughter. He was sitting on the plane, just before the takeoff.
“He called us and he said: ‘I am in the plane and I am safely boarded and everything was fine. This was his last call.”
A woman, who is sad to name her, said her son -in -law was killed.
He wiped the tears and said, “My daughter does not know she’s no longer”.
“I can’t break this news in front of him, can anyone else do it?”
After less than a minute of the take -off airplane, around the lunch time, the ground crashed after lifting 100 meters from the ground.
Directorate General Civil Aviation said the plane issued a May -Call and “immediately the take -off.”
India’s main city of Gujarat, Ahmedabad, has eight million people and its busy airport is surrounded by dense residential areas.
Krishna, a doctor, who did not give his full name, said, “One half of the plane collided with a residential building where doctors lived with their family.”
The US plan maker Boeing said he was in touch with Air India and was “ready to support” him on the incident, which sources close to the case said was the first 787 Dream Liner accident.
The UK and US aerial crash investigating agencies announced that they were sending teams to support their Indian counterparts.
Air India owners Tata Group offered Rs 10 million (7 117,000) for “every person’s family who lost their lives in the tragedy”, as well as funds to meet the medical expenses of the injured.
Rapid growth
India has begun a series of air accidents, including the devastation of 1996 when two jets collided with the middle wind on New Delhi, killing about 350 350 people.
In 2010, an Air India Express jet crashed at Mangalore airport in southwestern India and exploded in flames, killing 158 of the 166 passengers and crews on the board.
Experts say it will be very soon because of Thursday’s accident.
“It is unlikely that the aircraft was overweight or taking a lot of fuel,” said Jason Knight, senior lecturer at Portsmout University.
“The aircraft is designed to make it able to fly on an engine, so the most cause of the crash is double engine failure. The most cause of double engine failure is the bird strike.”
India’s airline industry has been on the rise with Wali Walsh, director general of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), which has called it “no lesser than an unusual”.
The development of its economy has made India and its 1.4 billion people the world’s fourth largest air market-domestic and international-IATA predicted that it will become the third largest within the decade.
