Air India Boeing 787 bound for London with 242 aboard crashes after takeoff in India

An Air India Boeing Dreamliner level with 242 passengers and unit aboard crashed soon aft takeoff from Ahmedabad, section officials and the bearer said Thursday.

"The injured are being taken to the nearest hospitals," Air India said successful a station connected X.

"With profound sorrow I corroborate that Air India flight, AI 171 operating Ahmedabad London Gatwick was progressive successful a tragic mishap today," Air India Chairman N Chandrasekaran said.

The craft was bound for London Gatwick Airport.

The formation was operated by a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, a top-selling wide-body craft meant for longer routes. The craft was delivered to Air India successful 2014, according to flight-tracking tract FlightRadar24.

Initial flight-path information "shows that the craft reached a maximum barometric altitude of 625 feet (airport altitude is astir 200 feet) and past it started to descend with an vertical velocity of -475 feet per minute," FlightRadar said connected X.

"We are alert of archetypal reports and are moving to stitchery much information," Boeing said successful a statement.

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport flights are temporarily suspended successful the aftermath of the incident, an airdrome spokesperson said.

"I americium profoundly saddened by the mishap of the Air India rider level clang successful Ahmedabad. I person instructed the officials to instrumentality contiguous rescue and alleviation operations successful the mishap and to marque arrangements for contiguous attraction of the injured passengers connected a warfare footing," Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel said connected societal media, according to a Google translation.

CNBC has reached retired to section constabulary and India's Directorate General of Civil Aviation.

"Rescue teams person been mobilised, and each efforts are being made to guarantee aesculapian assistance and alleviation enactment are being rushed to the site. My thoughts and prayers are with each those connected committee and their families," said Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu, India's aviation curate said successful a station connected X.

The incidental reverberated into markets, with shares of Boeing down 7.9% successful premarket trading astatine 6:03 a.m. E.T.

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