Passenger Plane Carrying 244 Crashes in India Shortly After Takeoff

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There were 169 Indian nationals, 53 British nationals, one Canadian national and seven Portuguese nationals on board the London-bound Boeing Dreamliner.

A London-bound Air India plane with more than 200 people on board crashed near the airport in India’s western city of Ahmedabad on Thursday.

Air India flight AI 171, a Boeing 787, crashed into a residential area five minutes after taking off at 1:38 p.m. local time, Faiz Ahmed Kidwai, the director general of the directorate of civil aviation, told The Associated Press.

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