The video shows the Air India plane descending on Ahmedabad, colliding behind the buildings

The moments before An Air India passenger plane crashed In western India, on Thursday he was captured in a video filmed from a building near the accident site, News themezone has verified.

The footage shows the plane, which had left the Ahmedabad airport a few minutes before with more than 240 people on board, descending over the city. Then disappear behind the buildings and there is a great explosion. You can see a large fire ball undulating on buildings.

Air India flight, AI171, had left to the London Gatwick airport at 1:38 pm local time, said the airline. He Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner He had 242 passengers and crew.

The plane lost a signal less than a minute after takeoff, according to the Live flight monitoring website. It seemed to reach an altitude of approximately 625 feet before descending. The accident occurred five minutes after takeoff, he told The News.

Initially, the police said there were no known survivors, but a senior Indian police officer told the National News Agency of the Ani country that A person survived The accident.

Victims were also reported on the ground where the plane crashed. At least five medical students were killed when the plane reached the dining room of a Faculty of Medicine, Divyansh Singh, vice president of the Federation of the Medical Association of India, told the AP. Almost 50 people were injured, he said.

“The rescue teams have mobilized, and all efforts are being made to ensure that medical help and relief support are taken to the site,” said Indian Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu, in a statement published on social networks.

The cause of the accident is under investigation.

It is the first accident of a 787-8 Dreamliner, according to Boeing’s statistical summary in April 2025 of incidents involving their plane.

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