Ahmedabad Plane Crash LIVE: 75 dead from BJ Medical College, 60 injured; PM Modi takes stock of situation

Ahmedabad Plan Crash into BJ Medical College: An Air India international flight, carrying around 242 passengers, and 12 crew members crashed into a hostel building of BJ Medical college in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. At least five students have been declared dead and 60 others injured. As per reports, 75 people from the medical college have lost their lives in the tragic incident.

The Air India Airbus Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner twin jet was en-route to London and crashed in a few seconds after it took off from the Ahmedabad International airport, the sources said. Among the 75 deceased, at least five were MBBS students, one a PG resident doctor, and another the wife of a superspecialist doctor.

FAIMA national vice president Dr Divyansh Singh said, "Bodies that have been found were totally charred." As rescuers struggled to find survivors in the charred wreckage and pull out the injured, many of them with grievous burns, officials tried to assess the human magnitude of the disaster, the PTI reported.

Around 168 Indian nationals, 53 British citizens, one Canadian and seven Portuguese nationals were on-board the Air India plane. The Indian nationals included BJP leader, Vijay Rupani.

As per various sources, the Air India Airbus also gave a distress call ‘MAYDAY’ to the Air Traffic Control around 1:30 pm, immediately after flying off from the Ahmedabad airport runway.