2025-06-12
16 分钟This is a special edition of the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service on the Indian plane crash.
I'm Jackie Leonard and we'll be bringing you what we know so far at 11.30 GMT.
The headlines, it was an Air India flight from Ahmedabad bound for London Gatwick.
It was a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner.
There were more than 240 people on board and it came down in a residential area.
An Air India plane has crashed into a residential area near an airport in India's western city of Ahmedabad seconds after takeoff.
The head of the Civil Aviation Authority says there were more than 240 people on board the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner en route for London.
The federal health minister said many people had been killed but didn't give figures.
Videos on social media show thick black smoke rising into the sky.
This man said he was sitting at home and there was a loud noise.
It felt like an earthquake.
He says, I came out and saw smoke.
I didn't know it was a plane crash.
Once I came here, then I found out.
I saw the crashed plane, many bodies lying.
Our Delhi correspondent Arunade Mukherjee gave this update to my colleague Anita McVeigh.
The last major statement came in from the Prime Minister himself,
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, putting out a statement on his official handle on X,
where he said that he was stunned and saddened by what had happened and it was heartbreaking to see what was going on.
He said that he's personally monitoring the situation and I think stunned is the word that seems to be translating on the ground as well