Crash is first involving a Boeing 787

An Air India flight to London’s Gatwick airport has crashed in Ahmedabad in western India shortly after take-off, with 242 people on board, according to the country’s aviation regulator.

Police in Gujarat state told the Financial Times that the plane crashed “within 10 minutes” of taking off from the airport in Ahmedabad.

The Indian aviation regulator said the aircraft made a mayday call to air traffic control “but thereafter no response was given by the aircraft to the calls made by ATC”.

The plane was a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner that was more than 10 years old, according to Flightradar24.

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