Air India flight crashes in Ahmedabad with more than 240 people on board

Air India flight crashes in Ahmedabad with more than 240 people on board

Jun 12, 2025 
An Air India plane bound for London with more than 240 people on board has crashed in India's western city of Ahmedabad. 

The plane went down minutes after taking off from the airport.

It struggled to take flight and then crash landed directly into a medical college hostel close to the airport, killing many medical students.  

Al Jazeera’s Um-e-Kulsoom Shariff reports.