An Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner bound for London’s Gatwick Airport with 242 passengers and crew on board crashed immediately after takeoff from the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad on Wednesday afternoon local time, the Times of India reports.
Video of the plane – the tank of which would’ve been carrying at least 25,000 gallons of fuel for the roughly eight hour flight – dropping into the city’s Meghani district shows a fireball immediately bursting up from behind trees and homes, making it extremely unlikely for anyone on board to have survived. Really the only question right now is whether anyone on the ground was also killed by the falling jetliner. Hopefully it crashed into an empty field or abandoned industrial site or something.