Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says one Canadian was on board an Air India plane that crashed in the Indian city of Ahmedabad on Thursday morning, writing in a post on X that he’s “devastated” at the news. Carney said his thoughts are with the loved ones of the more than 240 passengers on board the plane that crashed, with … Read more
Reuters An Air India passenger plane bound for London Gatwick crashed shortly after taking off in Ahmedabad on Thursday, leaving at least 204 people dead. The flight was carrying 242 passengers and crew when it was involved in what the airline has called a “tragic accident” in the city in western India. Ahmedabad’s police chief … Read more
An Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images An Air India Boeing Dreamliner plane with 242 passengers and crew aboard crashed shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad in western India, local officials and the carrier said Thursday. “The injured are being taken to the nearest hospitals,” Air India said in a … Read more
An Air India passenger plane with 244 people onboard crashed Thursday in India’s northwestern city of Ahmedabad, the airline and local media reported. Visuals on local television channels showed smoke billowing from the crash site near the airport in Ahmedabad. Faiz Ahmed Kidwai, the director general of the directorate of civil aviation, told The Associated … Read more
India’s Coast Guard is continuing efforts to douse a fire on a Singapore-flagged cargo ship in the Arabian Sea near the coast of the southern state of Kerala. MV Wan Hai 503, which was heading to India’s Mumbai city from Sri Lanka’s Colombo, reported an internal container explosion on Monday, resulting in a major fire … Read more
Police in India say a woman who went missing after her husband was murdered during their honeymoon is in custody after turning herself in. According to the BBC, relatives of the couple believed the wife, Sonam Raghuvanshi, 25, was dead or had been abducted and launched a large-scale campaign to locate her after she and … Read more