{"id":72291,"date":"2025-06-12T22:32:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T13:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/12\/london-bound-air-india-flight-ai171-plane-crash-people-onboard-ahmedabad"},"modified":"2025-06-13T05:22:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T20:22:21","slug":"apparently-no-survivors-after-air-india-plane-crash-in-ahmedabad-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72291","title":{"rendered":"British man is sole survivor of Air India plane crash that left more than 260 dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flight AI171 was bound for London when it crashed into residential area of Ahmedabad shortly after takeoff<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/jun\/12\/air-india-flight-ai171-plane-crash-ahmedabad-india-latest-updates\">Air India plane crash \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More than 260 people have been killed after a London-bound Air India flight crashed in a residential area of Ahmedabad, with a British man being the sole survivor.<\/p>\n<p>The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner heading for Gatwick was carrying 242 people when it crashed minutes after taking off at 1.38pm local time from Ahmedabad, the main city in the north-western state of Gujarat.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/12\/london-bound-air-india-flight-ai171-plane-crash-people-onboard-ahmedabad\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flight AI171 was bound for London when it crashed into residential area of Ahmedabad shortly after takeoffAir India plane crash \u2013 latest updatesMore than 260 people have been killed after a London-bound Air India flight crashed in a residential area of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3341,376,62,931,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-india-ahmedabad-plane-crash","category-air-transport","category-india","category-plane-crashes","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72291"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72339,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72291\/revisions\/72339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}