An Air India aircraft, with 242 passengers onboard, crashed a few minutes after take off from Ahmedabad’s Sardar Vallabhbhai International Airport. The flight was en route to London Gatwick Airport in the UK.
Three teams of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) with 90 personnel have been transported from Gandhinagar to the plane crash site. Three more teams are being transported from Vadodara. Families of individuals on the doomed flight rushed to the hospitals to see if they were there.
“My sister-in-law was going to London. Within an hour, I got news that the plane had crashed. So I have come here,” Poonam Patel told ANI as he arrived at the Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad.
#WATCH | Air India plane crash: "My sister-in-law was going to London. Within an hour, I got news that the plane had crashed. So I have come here," says Poonam Patel as he arrived at the Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad, Gujarat pic.twitter.com/PRgtdH46oQ
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A woman, Bhawna Patel told ANI, “My sister was going to London. She had her flight around 1.10 pm, but the flight crashed.”
#WATCH | Air India plane crash: "My sister was going to London. She had her flight around 1.10 pm, but the flight crashed," says Bhawna Patel as she arrived at the Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad, Gujarat pic.twitter.com/aDkixvDB9d
— ANI (@ANI) June 12, 2025
According to ANI, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a tele-conversation with Minister of Civil Aviation, Rammohan Naidu, to assess the situation. Rammohan Naidu told PM he was hurrying to the site to see the relief and rescue operation first-hand. PM Modi told Naidu to take all necessary actions to provide support right away and to update him regularly with information on the event.
Home Minister Amit Shah spoke with Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel and the police commissioner over the incident. He assured full support from the centre in relief and rescue operation.
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