At least 270 died when the Air India flight crashed into the campus of a medical college in Ahmedabad shortly after takeoff on Thursday. Only one passenger among the 242 aboard survived. At least 29 others on the ground, including five medical students inside the hostel, were also killed.

At least 270 people were killed when an Air India flight crashed into a medical college campus in Ahmedabad shortly after take-off on Thursday.

Air India flight AI171, a Boeing 787-8 carrying 242 people, crashed after taking off from Ahmedabad on its way to London.

Chandrasekaran addressed around 700 Air India employees and its leadership team on Monday at the company headquarters and its training academy in Gurugram. According to sources, he later met Civil Aviation Minister K Ram Mohan Naidu at the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) in the Capital,

A Delhi-bound Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner flight has been forced to turn back on Monday after the aircraft’s pilot said the jet was facing technical issues mid-air. The Air India flight, AI 315, was operating from Hong Kong to Delhi and had departed from the Asian city at 11.59am local time for its scheduled destination in New Delhi.

It seemed impossible, but shortly after news broke that an Air India flight had crashed in the city of Ahmedabad, video started circulating on social media showing a man walking from the scene in a bloodstained shirt.