BREAKING: Air India Dreamliner crashes into Ahmedabad college hostel, kills over 290

https://www.reuters.com/world/india/...rt-2025-06-12/

Summary:

  • Flight was bound for London's Gatwick Airport
  • Police say plane crashed on doctors' hostel
  • More than 290 dead, police say
  • At least one passenger survived
  • First fatal crash of Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner


AHMEDABAD, India, June 12 (Reuters) - More than 290 people were killed when an Air India plane bound for London with 242 people on board crashed minutes after taking off from the western city of Ahmedabad on Thursday, authorities said, in the world's worst aviation disaster in a decade.

The dead included people on the ground as the aircraft - headed for Gatwick Airport, south of the British capital - crashed on to a medical college hostel during lunch hour.