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Update on Plane crash in India

by damith
June 15, 2025 1:09 am 0 comment 251 views

By Thomas Mackintosh

• Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has visited the scene of Thursday’s plane crash in Ahmedabad which is known to have killed more than 240 people

• After viewing the accident site, Modi then went to a nearby hospital to meet some of those injured in the disaster

• Grieving families have been identifying bodies at Ahmedabad’s Civil Hospital – all but one of the 242 people on board the London Gatwick-bound Air India flight died when it crashed into a doctors’ hostel

• The sole survivor from the flight – a British national Vishwash Kumar Ramesh – is being treated in hospital

• Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, 60, is among those who died – he was a pilot with more than 8,200 hours of flying experience and was just months away from retirement

• In the UK, tributes have been paid to some of the 53 Britons who were onboard the flight – including a family from Gloucester and a family from Northamptonshire

• At least eight people who were not on the Air India aircraft have also died in the crash, a senior health official has told the BBC

• The cause of the crash is still not known and investigators are still searching for the two black boxes which will provide more details –BBC

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