Air India plane makes emergency landing just one day after Ahmedabad crash | World | News
An Air India flight from Thailand to New Delhi was forced to make an emergency landing after a bomb threat was received. It comes just one day after a London Gatwick-bound flight AI-171 crashed in Ahmedabad, killing 241 people on board and more on the ground. Flight AI 379 was carrying 156 passengers and returned to Phuket after a the threat was received aboard the plane. The aircraft left the Thai island at 9.30am local time, but circled over the Andaman Sea before coming back.
Officials have not released specific details about the nature of the bomb threat. Investigations are continuing into the crash of a London-bound plane that killed 240 people, with the death toll likely to increase. Air India confirmed there was only one survivor – a UK national – out of the 242 people on board the Boeing 787 Dreamliner when it crashed into a medical college shortly after take-off from Ahmedabad Airport.
It is one of the deadliest plane crashes in terms of the number of British nationals killed and the first involving a 787.
Images taken after the incident showed debris from the plane embedded in the BJ Medical College building.
At least five medical students were killed and about 50 injured.
At least eight people who were not on the Air India plane have died as a result of the crash, a senior health official in Ahmedabad told the BBC.
Four of them were medical students, who were living in one of the buildings the aircraft crashed into.
The other four were believed to be relatives of other students who were living in the hostel.
Briton Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, 40, is believed to be the only survivor of the crash.
He was in seat 11A, next to one of the aircraft’s emergency exits.
Speaking outside the family home in Leicester, his brother, Nayan Kumar Ramesh, 27, said: “We were just shocked as soon as we heard it.
“I last spoke to him yesterday morning. We’re devastated, just devastated.
“He said, ‘I have no idea how I exited the plane’.”
British couple Fiongal and Jamie Greenlaw-Meek, who run a spiritual wellness centre, were said to be among the dead.
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