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Guido Carim Junior, Senior Lecturer in Aviation, Griffith University

What do we know about the Air India crash? How did one man survive? What now? An aviation safety expert explains

The back of Air India flight 171 after it crashed into a residential building in Ahmedabad. Sam Panthaky / AFP via Getty Images

An Air India flight crashed shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad in northwest India on Thursday afternoon local time, killing more than 260 people.

The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, Flight AI171, was carrying 242 people bound for London. Only one passenger, a British man, survived.

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