Air India flight heading for London crashes with more than 240 on boardGlobalnews Digital
An Air India passenger plane with more than 240 people on board, including one Canadian, crashed in India’s city of Ahmedabad on Thursday.
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BBC correspondent at crash scene as rescuers work among wreckage
Air India say there were 169 Indian nationals on board the flight, as-well as 53 Britons, one Canadian national and seven Portuguese nationals. BBC News
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London-bound plane carrying more than 200 people crashes after takeoff in India
An Air India passenger plane carrying more than 200 people crashed after taking off from an airport in the Indian city of Ahmedabad Thursday. Local media showed smoke billowing from…
Watch: Smoke billows from Ahmedabad crash site
242 people were on board the Air India plane. BBC News
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