Rescue officials work at the site where Air India flight 171 crashed in a residential area near the airport in Ahmedabad.
AHMEDABAD, (India): Thick black plumes of acrid smoke towered high above India's Ahmedabad airport Thursday (June 12) after a London-bound passenger jet with 242 people aboard crashed shortly after takeoff.
Several videos posted on social media, which AFP was not able to immediately verify, showed an aircraft rapidly losing altitude -- with its nose up -- before it hit a building and exploded into an orange ball of fire.
