The Death Toll From The Boeing Crash In India Has Reached Nearly 320 People
2- 12.06.2025, 21:51
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The airplane crashed into residential buildings.
The number of victims of the crash of Air India's Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner in the Indian city of Ahmedabad has exceeded 315 people, the New Indian Express writes, citing the city police. Reuters had earlier reported 290 deaths. That number includes 241 people on board, while the rest died on the ground as the plane crashed into residential and office buildings. One passenger flying in seat 11A survived.
A spokesman for the Ahmedabad police department told The New Indian Express that the total death toll from the crash is at least 316 - 241 on board and another 75 in Atulyam Flats, which housed staff at the civil hospital in Meghani Nagar.
Of the 242 people on board, including 230 passengers and 12 crew members, 169 were Indian nationals, 53 from Britain, 1 from Canada and 7 from Portugal. The passengers included 104 men, 112 women and 14 children, including two infants.
One of the dead was former Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani. "Our leader Vijay Rupani was on his way (to London) to meet his family. He is also a victim of the incident. May his soul rest in peace. It is a great loss for the Indian People's Party (BJP)," a leader of the BJP's Gujarat unit told reporters.
The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and the UK's Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) said they are ready to send their experts to ascertain the circumstances of the crash.
The only surviving passenger is 40-year-old Indian-origin British citizen Ramesh Vishwashkumar. Indian Home Minister Amit Shah, who visited the scene, visited him in hospital. The man said he was visiting his homeland for a few days and was due to fly back to London with his brother, who died. According to the survivor, "thirty seconds after takeoff, there was a loud noise and then the plane crashed." Indian media said Ramesh Vishwashkumar survived by climbing out of an emergency exit near his seat 11A, but suffered serious injuries.
Preliminary reports suggest that the cause of the plane's downing may have been the failure of both engines, which experts believe occurred after the board collided with a flock of birds on takeoff. The pilot gave a distress signal to the control room, after which communication with the cockpit was lost.
The crash was a record-breaking death toll for India and made 2025 one of the deadliest years in the last decade for civil aviation. It is also the first aviation incident involving a Dreamliner aircraft to cause loss of life.
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