- Flight was bound for London’s Gatwick Airport
- Police say plane crashed on doctors’ hostel
- 30-35 bodies recovered from building
- Plane was Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner
- AHMEDABAD, India, June 12 (Reuters) – At least 30 people were killed when an Air India plane bound for London with 242 people on board crashed minutes after taking off from India’s western city of Ahmedabad on Thursday, with the toll expected to climb, authorities said.
The plane was headed for Gatwick Airport, south of the British capital, Air India said, while police officers said it crashed in a residential area near the airport.
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“The building on which it has crashed is a doctors’ hostel… we have cleared almost 70% to 80% of the area and will clear the rest soon,” a senior police officer told reporters.
