People with rescuers searching for missing people and clues on why the plane crashed.
Rescue workers search for missing people and aircraft parts in the charred buildings of a medical college hostel in Ahmedabad after an Air India plane crash killed more than 240 people in the world's worst aviation disaster in a decade.
The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner with 242 people on board bound for Gatwick Airport south of London took off over a residential area and then disappeared from view before a huge fireball was seen rising into the sky from beyond the houses, CCTV footage showed.
Only one passenger survived after it crashed onto the hostel during lunch hour, causing deaths on the ground as well, which local media has put as high as 24. Reuters could not immediately verify the number.
Rescue workers had completed combing the crash site and were now searching for missing people and bodies in the buildings, as well as for aircraft parts that could help explain why the plane crashed soon after taking off.
Local newspaper Hindustan Times reported one of two black boxes from the plane had been found. Reuters could not verify the report, and the paper did not say whether the flight data recorder or the cockpit voice recorder had been recovered.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was briefed by officials on the progress of rescue operations when he visited the crash site in his home state of Gujarat on Friday. Modi also met some of the injured being treated in the hospital.
"The scene of devastation is saddening," he said in a post on X.
Residents living in the vicinity said that the construction of the hostel for resident doctors was completed only a year ago, and the buildings were not fully occupied.
"We were at home and heard a massive sound, it appeared like a big blast. We then saw very dark smoke which engulfed the entire area," said 63-year-old Nitin Joshi, who has been living in the area for more than 50 years.
Parts of the plane's fuselage were scattered around the smouldering building into which it crashed. The tail of the plane was stuck on top of the building.
With AAP.
