This is a special edition of the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service on the Indian plane crash.

I'm Jackie Leonard and we'll be bringing you what we know so far at 1130 GMT.

The headlines, it was an air India flight from Aminabad bound for London Gatwick.

It was a Boeing 7878 Dreamliner.

There were more than 240 people on board,

and it came down in a residential area.

An Air India plane has crashed into a residential area near an airport in India's western city of Ahmedabad seconds after takeoff.

The head of the Civil Aviation Authority says there were more than 240 people on board

the Boeing 7878 Dreamliner on route for London.

The federal health minister said many people have been killed but didn't give figures.

Videos on social media show thick black smoke rising into the sky.

This man said he was sitting at home and there was a loud noise. It felt like an earthquake.

He says, I came out and saw smoke. I didn't know it was a plane crash. Once I came here, then I found out.

I saw the crashed plane, many bodies lying. Our Delhi correspondent Arunaday Mukaji gave this

update to my colleague Anita McVeigh. The last major statement came in from the Prime Minister

himself, Prime Minister Narendram Modi, putting out a statement on his official handle on X,

where he said that he was stunned and saddened by what had happened, and it was heartbreaking to see

what was going on. He said that he's personally monitoring the situation. And I think stunned

is the word that seems to be translating on the ground as well as we get those very, very shocking

and tragic ground reports. Many of them coming in from what you heard my colleague Roxy say from the ground there

because it was a situation that just changed within seconds. The plane took off and it had barely

reached 600 feet within seconds. It had lost contact with the air traffic control after making a

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