Air airline with a airline of more than 240 people on board crashed near the Ahmedabad airport in the Indian state of Gujarat, in the west of the country. In the video published by the Indian Times Now channel, the plane is visible horizontally until it crashed in the residential area, which causes a large explosion.
The plane crashed immediately after takeoff. The Flightradar24 flight monitoring platform showed that the data transmitted by the plane itself indicate that it reached a height of 130 meters before starting to fall.
The Director General of Civil Aviation India told AP that there were 232 passengers and 12 crews on the plane, Boeing 787. TOIR India determined the nationality of passengers: 169 Indians – Indians and 53, British, in addition to seven Portuguese and Canadians. The company indicates that the victims are transferred to nearby hospitals. The airport canceled all flights.
According to EFE, the authorities revealed a dense column of smoke, and the authorities reduced several roads that lead to the airport to facilitate the work on emergency situations. Fire and doctors teams urgently moved to the place to start rescue tasks.
The head of the Government of Gujarat, Bhupendra Patel, expressed his “deep pain as a result of an accident through the social network X and said that he gave“ instructions to immediately begin operations to save and extreme assistance ”.
Patel ordered to give “absolute priority” to the treatment of injured and the creation of a green corridor for quick transfer to the hospital.
The state leader added that the Minister of the Department of Internal Affairs Amit Shah contacted him to ensure the “full support of the central government” and the deployment of the national diversity response forces (NDRF) for cooperation in rescue work.