A plane carrying 242 people, including 53 British nationals, to London Gatwick has crashed in India.
Local police have said there appear to be no survivors after the plane came down in a residential area near Ahmedabad Airport shortly after take-off.
A fireball can be seen in footage as the Air India flight crashed, hitting a doctors’ hostel in the north-western city in Gujarat state.
Video circulating on social media shows massive plumes of thick black smoke rising into the sky near after the crash.
Other footage shows debris at the scene on fire and people being moved in stretchers and taken away in ambulances.
Air India said flight AI171, which departed from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick at 1.38pm local time, was carrying 242 passengers and crew members.
They include 169 Indian nationals, 53 British nationals, seven Portuguese nationals and one Canadian national.
“The injured are being taken to the nearest hospitals,” the airline said.
Ahmedabad Airport said the plane crashed “shortly after take-off, outside the airport”. Flights were suspended until shortly after 4pm local time.
In a statement, London Gatwick said the flight was due to land at 6.25pm UK time on Thursday and a reception centre for relatives of those on board is being set up where information and support will be provided.
Flight tracking website Flightradar said a signal was last received from the aircraft less than a minute after take-off.
It is the first ever crash of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, according to the Aviation Safety Network database.
The model, a widebody, twin-engine plane, has made five million journeys in the 14 years since its first passenger flight.
