An Air India aircraft to London with 242 people on board, crashed this Thursday, June 12 shortly after taking off from Ahmedabad airport in the northwest of India.
“Apparently there is no survivor,” said the City Chief of the City, GS Malik, to the AFP, who also informed other victims on the disaster website.
The device, a long distance from Boeing 787-8 Dreamline Type, had taken off at 1:39 pm
Almost immediately he issued a call of anguish before colliding “outside the perimeter of the airport,” he said, without giving other details about the circumstances of the accident.
The videos published on social networks show the plane that quickly loses the altitude, the nose in the air, before hitting a building and exploiting in a ball of orange fire.
First clash of 787
Air India plane crash on Thursday is the first for a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, a source close to AFP to the AFP, confirming the AFP databases.
The plane, which crashed after taking off from Ahmedabad, in the northwest of India, and had the London Airport of Gatwick as a destination, is a long journey in service in 2011, which can transport between 248 and 330 people.
According to civil aviation, Air India flight 171 had embarked 230 passengers: 169 Indians, 53 British members, 7 Portuguese and a Canadian and twelve crew members.
The clash on Thursday in the India of a plane in India with 242 people on board runs the risk of being among the most mortal of the 21st century in the world, outside the attack.
Source: BFM TV
