Ahmedabad : An Air India Flight (AI171) has crashed in the Meghani area near Ahmedabad Airport in Gujarat. Visuals from PTI showed thick smoke rising from the crash site. CNN-News18 reports that there were 242 people on board the aircraft. Faiz Ahmed Kidwai, head of India's directorate of civil aviation, told the Associated Press that the plane crashed into a residential area called Meghani Nagar. There were 232 passengers and 12 crew members on board, where 169 Indian nationals, 53 Britishers, 1 Canadian and 7 Portuguese nationals were boarded. Here are the live updates: We are closing this live blog here. Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, 40, has been confirmed as the only survivor of the Air India crash in Ahmedabad. Union Civil Aviation Minister Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu has arrived at the site of the Ahmedabad plane crash. Vijay Rupani was the passenger no. 12 in flight. Following the Ahmedabad plane crash, Air India has added a hotline number...
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