LONDON and DELHI -- An Air India airliner carrying 230 passengers and 12 crew members en route to the United Kingdom crashed into a building shortly after takeoff on Thursday, leaving 246 dead and at least one surviving passenger, local officials and the airline said.

An Air India plane, en route to London, tragically crashed in Ahmedabad shortly after takeoff, claiming over 200 lives, including many British nationals. The Boeing 787-8 struck a medical college and residential area,

One of the strongest pieces of evidence under review is a CCTV clip that shows the takeoff and the crash of the plane.

The lone passenger who survived the Air India crash that killed 241 people onboard couldn’t believe he was alive when he opened his eyes, surrounded by flames, debris and charred bodies.

At least 274 people were killed in one of India's deadliest plane crashes involving a London-bound Air India flight in Ahmedabad earlier this week.