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A family of five, ready for a fresh start in London, smiled for one last selfie minutes before their aircraft exploded with a total 242 occupants on board.

On Thursday afternoon local time, an Air India passenger plane bound for London crashed shortly after takeoff from the northwestern Indian city of Ahmedabad. There were reportedly 242 people onboard, including two pilots and ten cabin crew.

The dead include a young man who won a visa lottery; families returning from a wedding and Eid; a student eating lunch.

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In what is being described as one of the worst aviation disasters in recent memory, a London-bound Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crashed shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad on Thursday, killing at least 260 on board and in the area impacted by the crash.

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A 40-year-old man, Vishwas Kumar Ramesh, walked away from the wreckage of Air India Flight AI 171 that crashed shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad airport on Thursday, surviving a tragedy that claimed at least 204 lives.