Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canadian was on a Aircraft A plane that crashed in the Indian city of Ahmedabad Thursday morning, the authorities of the city saying at least 240 people on board and on the ground were killed.
Carney said his thoughts concerned relatives of more than 240 passengers aboard the plane that crashed, many details still emerging from local authorities.
Devastated to learn the accident of an India airplane in London in Ahmedabad, “wrote Carney on X.” Transport managers in Canada are in close contact with counterparts and I receive regular updates as the response to this tragedy takes place. »»
The Canadian citizen who is said to be on the Air India flight is the dentist Nirali Sureshkumar Patel, Mississauga, Ontario, confirmed his family to the Canadian press. Global News did not independently verify the identity.
Global Affairs Canada said that he could not confirm details on Canada on board due to privacy, but said he was ready to provide consular assistance.
The smoke that escapes from the accident could be seen on local television channels in what seemed to be an area populated near the airport, the police commissioner GS Malik saying to the Associated Press that some residents can also be dead while the plane fell into a residential area with offices.
“It seems that there are no survivors in the plane crash,” said Malik.
The cause of the accident is not yet known.
Vidhi CHAPHARY, a high -level police officer in the city, said that a passenger had survived, which was confirmed by the Indian Minister of India, Amit Shah.
CHAPHARY said that medical students, who were in a college inn when the plane hit the building, was part of at least 240 people who died in the accident shortly after takeoff.
The firefighters sprayed the smoking wreck in the plane, which would have been fully loaded with fuel shortly after takeoff, and buildings on several floors adjacent with water. The charred bodies lay on the ground and certain parts of the fuselage were dispersed around the site. Indian army teams helped civil authorities eliminate debris and treat the wounded.
A video on social networks showed that the jet was slowly descending as if it were landing. As soon as he disappeared from the view behind rows of houses, a giant fireball filled the sky. The AP was able to check the video by matching the flight trajectory of the plane from the track with the accident site and the nearby residential area.
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On the accident site, the tail cone of the plane with damaged stabilizing fins still attached to it was housed near the top of one of the buildings.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi described the crash “tearing beyond words”.
“During this sad hour, my thoughts are with all those affected,” he said in an article on social networks.
Sambit Patra, a legislator of the Modi Bharatiya Janata party, said that former Gujarat Minister Vijay Rupani was among the dead.
Divyansh Singh, vice-president of the Federation of the All India Medical Association, said that at least five students of the Medical College had been killed on the ground and that 50 others were injured. Singh said that some of them were in critical condition and that many people are “dreaded buried in debris”.
Air India said the flight to London Gatwick airport transported 242 passengers and crew, with 169 Indians, 53 British, seven Portuguese and a Canadian on board. The Boeing 787-8 crashed in a residential area called Meghani Nagar five minutes after taking off at 1:38 p.m. (08:08 GMT), said Ahmed Kidwai, CEO of the Civil Aviation Directorate, said in Faiz Ahmed Kidwi.
All efforts have been made to ensure medical help and support for help on the site, the Minister of Civil Aviation of India, Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu, published on X.
First crash of a Boeing 787
This is the first crash of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, according to the database of the aviation security network. Boeing said he “worked to collect more information”.
India’s aviation regulatory organization said that the plane had given Mayday, signaling an emergency, but had not responded to calls by the airport traffic control.
Aviation consultant John M. Cox, the CEO of operating systems security, told the AP of Los Angeles that even if the first images of the accident were poor, it appeared that the plane had the nose and did not climb, which is one of the things that the investigators would examine.
“At this stage, it’s very, very, very early; we don’t know much,” he said. “But the 787 has very in -depth flight data monitoring – the parameters of the flight data recorder are in thousands – so once we have this recorder, they will be able to know what happened fairly quickly.”
Two -to -hand -boring planes were introduced in 2009 and more than 1,000 were delivered to dozens of airlines, according to the Flightradar24 website.
Air India president Natarajan Chandrasekaran said that “our main objective is to support all those affected and their families”.
“Our thoughts and deepest condolences concern families and beings dear to all those who are affected by this devastating event,” he said.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer called the “devastating” crash and the British office minister Lucy Powell said that the government would provide “all the support it can” to the accidents.
“This is a story that takes place, and this will undoubtedly cause a huge amount of concern and concern for the many families and communities here and those waiting for the arrival of their relatives,” she told legislators in the House of Commons.
“We send our deepest sympathy and our thoughts to all these families, and the government will provide all the support that this can also with those of India and those of this country,” she added.
Great Britain has very close links with India. There were nearly 1.9 million people in the country of Indian origin, according to the Census of the United Kingdom 2021.
The condolences also flocked to King Charles III, who said that he and his wife, Queen Camilla, were “desperately shocked” by the accident.
“Our special prayers and our deepest possible sympathy are with the families and friends of all the people affected by this terror tragic incident in so many nations,” he said in a statement.
Previous air disasters in India
The last plane accident of major passengers in India took place in 2020, when an India air expresses Boeing-737 skidled on a track at the top of a hill in the south of India, killing 21 people.
The worst air disaster in India took place on November 12, 1996, when a Saudi flight Airlines collided outdoors with a Kazakhstan Airlines flight near Charki Dadri in the state of Haryana, killing the 349 on board the two planes.
The accident occurs a few days before the opening of the Paris Air Show, a large aviation exhibition where Boeing and the European Rival Airbus will present their plane and fight for the orders of jets of the airlines of the airlines.
Boeing has been in recovery mode for more than six years after the Air 610 flight, a Boeing 737 Max 8, plunged into the Java Sea off the coast of Indonesia after the takeoff of Jakarta, killing the 189 people on board. Five months later, the flight 302 of Ethiopian Airlines, a Boeing 737 Max 8, crashed after takeoff of Addis Ababa, in Ethiopia, killing 157 passengers and crew members.
Boeing Co’s shares fell almost 9% before opening up the United States
– The journalist of Associated Press, Rajesh Roy, reported to New Delhi. Sheikh Saaliq in Srinagar, India, Pan Pylas, Kelvin Chan and Brian Melley in London and Annika Wolters, David Rising, Adam Schreck and Lorian Belanger in Bangkok contributed to this report.