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Video posted to social media shortly after the crash and verified by NBC News shows plumes of thick, black smoke to the south of the airport.

An Air India plane crashed on a building minutes after takeoff near the airport in India’s western city of Ahmedabad on Thursday. The flight had 242 people on board and was departing for London ...

In Ahmedabad, as in cities across this country of 1.4 billion people, there is little buffer between the increasingly busy airport and the densely populated neighborhoods that encircle it.

A large Air India passenger jet crashed in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad, shortly after taking off for London on June 12. Here's what to know.

The latest news and what we know about the Air India flight that crashes just minutes after take-off in Ahmedabad. ... and the final destination was Britain's Gatwick Airport, just outside of London.