A COBRA meeting chaired by David Lammy was urgently held after the Air India plane crash today.
CCTV footage showed the doomed Boeing 787 taking off before crashing in a fireball while carrying 242 people.
David Lammy chaired an urgent COBRA meeting on the disaster today[/caption]
CCTV footage showed the doomed Boeing 787 taking off before crashing in a fireball[/caption]
It appeared to lose power in Ahmedabad in the west of India.
Footage shows the plane take to the sky – before it appears to stop climbing and then plummet back down to earth.
The flight then crashed in a fireball into a doctor’s hostel.
Police are now hunting through the rubble and wreckage for any survivors.
The plane was flying to London Gatwick airport and was carrying 230 passengers and 12 crew – including 53 Brits.
A British man miraculously survived the crash after jumping off the flaming jet and was filmed walking away from the wreckage.
In a statement the airline said: “Flight AI171, operating Ahmedabad-London Gatwick was involved in an accident on 12 June 2025.
“At this moment, we are ascertaining the details and will share further updates at the earliest opportunity.”
Out of the 242 on board, 169 were Indian travellers, one Canadian and seven Portuguese nationals alongside the Brits.
King Charles said he was “desperately shocked” by Thursday’s air crash in India, sending “prayers and deepest possible sympathies” to the families of those affected.
“My wife and I have been desperately shocked by the terrible events in Ahmedabad this morning,” the monarch wrote on Instagram, calling it a “heartbreaking and traumatic time”.
