An Air India flight bound for London crashed only seconds after takeoff in western India on Thursday, plunging into a local medical college and killing more than 260 people, officials said. Video verified by The New York Times shows the plane taking off and then descending slowly over a cluster of buildings as if it were gliding before a large fireball erupts on the horizon. It did not tumble or plunge out of the sky, and was in the air for less than a minute, the video shows. Air India confirmed that 241 people — all but one person on the plane — were killed, and that one person, a British citizen, had survived. The crash’s sole survivor was later identified by his brother as Viswash Kumar Ramesh.

Source: The Times June 13, 2025 01:20 UTC