Only one of 242 passengers and crews survived the crash of aircraft Er India – BBC News in Serbian
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The aircraft from Er India crashed on Thursday near the airport in Ahmedabad, in western India.
241 people were killed, and only one passenger, the British of Indian origin, survived.
204 bodies were found at the site of the accident, while more than 40 people were injured, the police chief of GS Malik for the BBC.
It is not known whether the passengers from the plane or people who found themselves at the scene of the accident were killed.
Fifty students of medicine are in the hospital, as the plane crashed at the Health Workers Hostel. Five students are kept as disappeared, and generating two in the intensive care department.
The arrival of American and British experts in India is expected to help in the investigation.
According to police data, there were 242 passengers on the plane, including two pilots and 10 crew members.
There were 169 Indian citizens, 53 Britons, seven Portuguese and one Canadian, according to ER India.
The Chief of Police Malik told the news agency Ana that one passenger survived and was hospitalized.
« The exact number of victims is determined. »
The Survivor of the British Višvaškumara Ramesha visited the Indian Interior Minister Amit Chess in the hospital.
« Thirty seconds after take-off, there was a loud noise, and then the plane crashed. Everything happened so fast, » said the only survive traveler in an accident.
The plane, which was supposed to fly towards London, crashed during take-off and fell to a residential settlement.
The signal was lost for a few seconds after taking off, when the plane reached 188 meters, according to the Field Radar (Flight Radar).
The Boing 787-8 sent a call to flight control after take-off, but he soon lost every contact.
« Everyone runs to save as many lives as possible, » says BBC Reporter Roxy Gadjdeker from the face of the place.
« Tragedy in Ahmedabad stunned us and saddened us (…) My thoughts are with anyone who is affected, » Narenda Modi, Prime Minister of India, on the social network IX.
Boing published a short statement in which they say they « work in collecting as much information as possible. »
The Boing 787 has collapsed in this way for the first time.
He was launched 14 years ago, and just six weeks ago the aircraft producer praised the fact that the model, also known as Drimlajner, had a billionist passenger.
The company announced this occasion that the global fleet 787 of over 1,175 aircraft was performed almost five million flights.
The accident is a big kick for a fight to overcome a number of problems, evaluates the BBC journalist Jonathan Josefs, including fatal aircraft accidents related to the Boing 737 model, where hundreds of people have been killed.
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