Air disaster occurred in the city of Ahmadabad in India. Five minutes after the start, the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner plane crashed belonging to the Air India line. There were 242 passengers and crew members on board the machine. They are people of different nationalities: 169 India citizens, 53 British, 7 Portuguese and one Canadian. Indian media reports that the captain of the aircraft is a second lieutenant from 8.2 thousand. hours of experience in flying. Recordings from the place of the tragedy have appeared on the web, and a rescue operation is still underway. The police reported that at least 290 people were killed. Several dozen of them were in the machine's impact zone.
