A jet that crashed en route to London from India had carried hundreds of passengers to and from Australia just days earlier.

At least 240 people were killed when an Air India plane crashed Thursday into a medical school shortly after takeoff. It was the latest in a long list of aviation disasters this year.

The Airport ... Jet Airways flight attempting to land from Mumbai, which was eventually diverted to Bangalore with only 20 minutes of aviation turbine fuel left. Less than six hours after the ...

Follow MailOnline's live coverage after an Air India plane carrying 242 people crashes in Ahmedabad while heading to London ...

Air India says a London-bound flight crashed shortly after taking off from Ahmedabad airport Thursday with more than 240 ...

Follow MailOnline's live coverage after an Air India plane carrying 242 people crashes in Ahmedabad while heading to London ...

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The single passenger escaped the fiery crash of an Air India passenger plane, according to a doctor at a hospital in Ahmedabad, shortly after it took off for London with more than 240 people on board.

A single passenger survived the fiery crash of an Air India passenger plane in the northwestern city of Ahmedabad, killing ...

Air India says a London-bound flight crashed shortly after taking off from Ahmedabad airport Thursday with 242 passengers and ...

with an All Nippon Airways aircraft flying to Hong Kong from Tokyo Narita. The Boeing 787 series now has three models - with the Boeing 787-8 - the aircraft involved in Thursday's Ahmedabad crash ...

That's when air traffic controllers at the airport decided to abort the landing of a second jet, a Republic Airways Embraer E170 ... citing the ongoing crash investigation by the National ...