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India PM Narendra Modi. Photo: PIB

PM Modi may visit Air India flight crash site in Ahmedabad today

| @indiablooms | Jun 13, 2025, at 08:53 am

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to visit the site where an Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, en route to London with 242 people onboard, crashed immediately after it took off from Ahmedabad airport on Thursday afternoon.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to reach Ahmedabad by 9 am, reported India Today.

One person, the passenger of seat No. 11A,  survived the crash miraculously, the Ahmedabad Police said.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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According to reports, the lone survivor has been taken to the hospital and is under treatment.

In a cell phone video that is being circulated online, the passenger was seen walking with a limp, indicating a leg injury. His clothes had blood stains and smudges of soot.

"The police found one survivor in seat 11A,"  Ahmedabad Police Commissioner GS Malik was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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The person has been identified as 40-year-old Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, a British-Indian who was returning to the UK after a visit.

AI171, carrying 242 people, went down almost immediately departure at 1:38 PM, sending up plumes of smoke near the crash site.

It hit a medical college hostel, leaving five students dead as well.

The flight carried 169 Indian passengers, 53 British nationals, 7 Portuguese citizens, and one Canadian.

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