An Air India plane crashed Thursday in the northwestern city of Ahmedabad in Gujarat province. It was flight AI171, with 242 passengers on board, bound for London’s Gatwick airport.

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There were 232 passengers and 10 crew members on board, the airline said on social media. Of the total number of passengers, 169 were Indian, 53 British, seven Portuguese and one Canadian.

According to the Flightradar platform on its official “X” account, the last signal from the aircraft – a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner – was received at around 13:38 local time, just seconds after take-off.

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According to Indian media, there could have been about 250 people on board the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner.

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‘Initial ADS-B data from the flight shows that the aircraft reached a maximum barometric altitude of 625 feet (the altitude of the airport is about 200 feet) and then started descending with a vertical speed of -475 feet per minute,’ the air service said.

Images shared by users on social media show a large plume of smoke billowing from the crash site, which took place near the city’s Sardar Vallabhbhai Airport.

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The chief minister of Gujarat province has shared a message on “X” informing that he had directed the authorities to “undertake immediate rescue and relief operations” for the “urgent” relief of the injured passengers. “I am deeply shocked by the accident,” he stressed. “I have also ordered that a green corridor be set up for the transfer of the injured and that priority be given to medical care at the hospital”.

According to the Indian news agency PTI, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reportedly spoken to Home Minister Amit Shah and Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu to ask them to go to Ahmedabad and ensure that ‘all possible assistance is provided to those affected’ after the crash.

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UPDATE: At least one survivor of Air India flight AI171 has been found alive and is being treated in hospital, a police source confirmed to the media on Thursday. Indian television channels have broadcast footage showing a man who the media say is the survivor of the crash of the plane, which crashed in the Indian city of Ahmedabad with 242 people on board. According to some media reports, he jumped out of the plane before it crashed.

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The Ahmedabad police chief, G.S. Malik, confirmed the discovery of this person, located in seat 11A of the Boeing 787, who he said was being treated in a hospital without specifying his state of health. In the images broadcast by the Indian channel NDTV, a man can be seen walking after the accident, which occurred when the plane hit a student residence of the BJ Medical College, causing the death of at least five people on the ground.

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