London-bound Air India plane with 242 people onboard crashes after takeoff

Officials say many feared dead after aircraft crashes into a doctors’ hostel in the city of Ahmedabad

Air India plane crash – latest updates

Many people are feared to have been killed after a London-bound Air India flight with 242 people onboard crashed into a hostel for doctors in India’s north-western city of Ahmedabad, officials said.

The country’s federal health minister said “many people” had died after the Boeing 787-8 crashed into a residential area called Meghani Nagar five minutes after taking off at 1.38pm local time.