Flight to Gatwick carrying 242 people crashes at Ahmedabad airport

Sky News: Flight to Gatwick carrying 242 people crashes at Ahmedabad airport

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00:00I'll show you some local pictures now. These are the latest images, new images coming to us here

00:05at Sky News. This is that plume of smoke that I was referencing to you earlier. So you can see

00:12there in the foreground what appears to be residential buildings. You can see there that

00:17ambulance. We've heard reports from the Reuters news agency that ambulances have been in attendance

00:23at the scene and that people have been seen being taken away on stretchers. I cannot tell you

00:29at the moment any information regarding passenger casualties and the severity of any injuries

00:36and equally any fatalities at this moment. But the picture speaks for itself. That plume

00:42of smoke obviously shortly after takeoff aircraft such as the Boeing 878 and any aircraft will

00:49have been fully laden with fuel. That is a long flight from India to London Gatwick. So we will

00:56expect a full complement of cargo, passengers and of fuel. And I think it is understandable

01:02to say at this moment that is probably what we are seeing live here in these latest images

01:06on Sky News. The flames from and the smoke from that crash. The aviation minister of India

01:16has said that they are on highest alert and that rescue teams have been mobilised. Just worth

01:23pointing out to you that we do also have a live page running on the Sky News website and the

01:28Sky News app. You can download that yourself from your smartphone or your tablet. It will

01:32bring together all of our reporting both from our teams and correspondents on the ground in

01:36India and also from our digital teams who will be collating everything that we are getting

01:41from the internet too.

01:48time and Famous taking place.

01:58So let's see a quick stream.

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