The London-bound Boeing 787 struck a medical college hostel in a residential area of Ahmedabad minutes after takeoff Thursday, killing 241 people on board and at least 29 on the ground. One passenger survived.

Air India flight AI171, a Boeing 787-8 carrying 242 people, crashed after taking off from Ahmedabad on its way to London.

Tragedy struck this week when a plane crashed in the city of Ahmedabad just shortly after takeoff, leaving investigators and aviation officials with many questions.

A mother who died in the Air India plane crash had been reluctant to travel and feared leaving her young son behind for the first time, a colleague has said.Abdhiben Patel, known as Abdhi, was killed when flight AI171 crashed shortly after take-off from Ahmedabad on Thursday.

Iran conflict are casting a shadow over what was supposed to be a relatively upbeat Paris Air Show. Air India Flight 171 was the first-ever deadly crash of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg and Stephanie Pope,