Air India flight crashed, initial investigation launched. Over 300 victims estimated
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Ahmedabad, at the site of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner crash yesterday, 12 June, in which at least 265 people died
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New emergency for an Air India aircraft, after the crash of a Boeing 787 yesterday, 12 June, in which at least 265 people died. In Thailand, after a bomb scare, an Indian flag carrier flight from the Thai island of Phuket to Delhi made an emergency landing at Phuket airport. Flight AI 379 had landed and the airport was proceeding with emergency plans, an official told Reuters.
Meanwhile, the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Ahmedabad, at the site of what is confirmed to be the worst air tragedy in Indian civil aviation and in which at least 265 people died. Indian airline Air India flight 171 crashed into buildings in the northwestern Indian city shortly after take-off towards London's Gatwick airport.
Only one survivor among the 242 people on board: 12 crew members and 230 passengers, including 159 Indian nationals, 53 British, 7 Portuguese and one Canadian. "I was surrounded by the dead," said the 40-year-old British man of Indian origin, "the miracle passenger". In a statement published on its website, Air India confirmed that '241 deaths have been confirmed' out of '230 passengers and 12 crew members. The sole survivor is hospitalised'.
Over 300 victims estimated
.The plane broke contact with the control tower at a height of about 200 metres and crashed on a medical student house near the runways of the airport, which is located near Ahmedabad, a city of more than 5 million inhabitants and capital of Gujarat, the Prime Minister's home state.The many casualties also registered at the crash site bring the death toll to more than 300.
Akshay Dongardiv, national president of the All India Federation of Medical Associations, said that medical workers had also started to conduct the first DNA tests to give an identity to the bodies of the victims, as the bereaved families gathered in front of the civil hospital in Ahmedabad.
