Two young British girls were left orphaned by the Air India plane crash, after their father traveled to the south Asian country to scatter his wife's ashes.

Gatwick Airport have issued a statement following the devastating Air India plane crash earlier today in India

An Air India plane with more than 200 people on board crashed near the airport in India's city of Ahmedabad, the airline and police officials said.

The emergency landing comes just days after a deadly Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad shocked the nation. At least 279 killed in one of the world's worst plane crashes in decades.

Both of the "black boxes" were recovered from the wreckage of the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner in India after after all but one of the 242 people onboard died.

A British student who had a ticket for the Air India flight from Ahmedabad to London’s Gatwick Airport has spoken out on how her ‘life was saved’. The aircraft tragically crashed into a doctors’ hostel just moments after leaving the airport in West India on Thursday (12 June), killing all but one of the 242 people on board.

After a London-bound plane crashed shortly after takeoff in India, officials have confirmed that 241 victims aboard the flight have perished.

A British woman narrowly missed boarding the doomed Air India flight by just 10 minutes because she was stuck in traffic on the way to the airport in what she described as “totally a miracle.” Bhoomi Chauhan,