The London-bound Boeing Dreamliner went down moments after takeoff in Ahmedabad, India, with 242 people aboard. India’s home minister said he had met with a survivor. The victims included students at a medical college where the plane crashed.
Rescuers were combing the smoldering wreckage of an Air India passenger jet that crashed moments after takeoff Thursday in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad, searching for survivors after an official said that more than 200 had died and dozens of people aboard remained unaccounted for.
The plane, carrying 242 passengers and crew members, crashed into a medical college about a mile southwest of the city’s Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport. As night fell and smoke hung in the air, heavy machines worked to untangle charred pieces of the aircraft at the crash site.