Ahmedabad airport closed for flight operations

NEW DELHI: Ahmedabad's Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport formation operations person been temporarily suspended aft an Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashed soon aft takeoff connected Thursday afternoon. The airdrome is presently non-operational, and each flights are halted until further notice.This follows aft an Air India level bound for London, plunged into the Meghani country of the city, sending up a monolithic plume of achromatic fume and triggering an contiguous exigency response.The Boeing craft destined for London with 242 radical aboard crashed soon aft departing from Ahmedabad airdrome connected Thursday afternoon, with galore fatalities anticipated.

It plummeted rapidly and crashed successful Meghaninagar locality adjacent Ahmedabad planetary airdrome astatine astir 2 pm."Flight AI171, operating Ahmedabad-London Gatwick, was progressive successful an incidental today, 12 June 2025. At this moment, we are ascertaining the details and volition stock further updates astatine the earliest connected our X handle," Air India posted connected X.The injured passengers were transported to the metropolis civilian infirmary for treatment.

Dense achromatic fume was disposable from sizeable distances. Television crews who reached the clang tract broadcast footage of the craft debris.Emergency services arrived swiftly astatine the determination and initiated broad rescue, evacuation, and occurrence power measures."We are acquiring details astir the casualties," said Deputy Commissioner of Police, Kanan Desai.Fire serviceman Jayesh Khadia confirmed that occurrence engines were dispatched instantly to extinguish the flames.