An Air India flight bound for London has crashed with 242 people on board in western India. The Boeing 787 aircraft departed from Ahmedabad airport in the western Indian state of Gujarat at 1.39pm local time (8.09am BST) on Thursday. But after issuing a mayday call, it crashed into a residential area called Meghani Nagar just five minutes after taking off, India’s civil aviation authority confirmed. Video and images from the city show plumes of smoke pouring from the wreckage of the plane, with