Dead Bodies, Mangled Luggage, Debris Haunt Rescuers at Air India Crash Site
First aid responders on duty at the crash site of the doomed Air India flight in Ahmedabad, India, on June 12.
Photographer: Elke Scholiers/Getty ImagesStudents of the B.J. Medical College were having lunch in their hostel dining hall on Thursday when a Boeing 787 jet loaded with fuel smashed into the building and exploded.
Flight AI171 had taken off just minutes earlier from a nearby airport in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad, before making a perilous descent that ended in the death of all but one of the 242 people aboard. The number of casualties among those on the ground and the building the plane slammed into is less clear.