Air India plane crash: Where the flight from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick crashed; explained in graphics

An Air India plane crashed on a building minutes after takeoff near the airport in India's western city of Ahmedabad on Thursday. The flight had 242 people on board and was departing for London's Gatwick Airport.
City police chief G.S. Malik told Reuters that 204 bodies had been recovered from the crash site.
The crash occurred just after the plane took off, local television channels reported. One channel showed the plane taking off over a residential area and then disappearing from the screen before a huge jet of fire can be seen rising into the sky from beyond the houses.
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The plane came down in a residential area, crashing on to a medical college hostel outside the airport during lunch hour.
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The aircraft had arrived in Ahmedabad from Indian capital New Delhi about three hours earlier and was taking off as
flight AI-171
for London when it crashed. According to air traffic control at Ahmedabad airport, the aircraft departed at 1:39 p.m. (8:09 GMT) from runway 23. It gave a 'Mayday' call, signalling an emergency, but thereafter there was no response from the aircraft.
Reuters
The aircraft was a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, one of the most modern passenger aircraft in service. It is the first fatal air crash involving a Dreamliner anywhere in the world in its nearly 15 years of service. The fleet of more than 1,100 Dreamliners have carried more than a billion passengers, according to Boeing.
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The plane that crashed on Thursday flew for the first time in 2013 and was delivered to Air India in January 2014, Flightradar24 said. It had previously flown between major hubs including London, Tokyo, Dubai and Melbourne.
Reuters
Over the past decade, commercial jet accidents have occurred during nearly every phase of flight, with landing accounting for the largest share.
Reuters

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