More than 260 people were killed when an Air India plane carrying 242 people crashed into a college campus on Thursday just after takeoff in Ahmedabad, a city in the western Indian state of Gujarat.
It was India’s deadliest aviation disaster since 1996, and one of the deadliest in the world in recent history.
The plane was traveling to London, and the airline released the nationalities of those on board: 169 Indians, 53 Britons, seven Portuguese and one Canadian. Only one person onboard survived.
The plane crashed into a dining hall at the college, causing more fatalities.
Videos showed enormous plumes of smoke billowing from the crash site, where the blackened remains of the plane, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, lay in pieces.
Families of the victims of the plane crash gathered at a hospital in the western city of Ahmedabad.
At a hospital in Ahmedabad. In addition to the people on board the plane, dozens of others perished when the plane descended on the dining hall of a nearby college.
Men carry the body of a student who died after the plane crashed into a medical college.
More than 250 bodies had been brought to Ahmedabad Civil Hospital, a medical official said.
Security around the crash site was tightened.
Waiting for news about relatives. Officials say that the death toll from the crash could still rise.
Where the Air India flight crashed on Thursday in the city of Ahmedabad.
Several videos uploaded to social media showed plumes of smoke rising near the airport.
The tail of an Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner plane that crashed into a building in Ahmedabad.
Rescue team members at the crash site.
A family member upon hearing that her brother had died in the crash.
Recovering bodies at the crash site.
Firefighters dousing the wreckage of the flight, which had been bound for London.
The wreckage of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner showed part of its registration, “VT-ANB.”
Rescuers carrying the body of a victim from the crash site.
Emergency workers removed debris and personal belongings from the site of the crash.
A building damaged by the crash.
The remains of some victims were taken to Civil Hospital.
Dousing wreckage at the scene.
A senior police official in Ahmedabad said 269 bodies had been brought to the main hospital so far. The official, Vishakha Dabral, cautioned that the exact toll would not emerge for some time, and after DNA testing.
An investigator looking for clues amid the debris on Thursday night.
