There are reports of at least one survivor so far from the plane crash.
Indian news agency ANI, citing local police, says the passenger concerned appears to have been in seat 11A and is currently being treated in a hospital, my colleague Jeanette Rodrigues says.
There are also some televised visuals of a bloodied person, possibly the survivor, walking around wounded.
Bloomberg News hasn’t independently verified the ANI report or the identity of the bloodied person.
Calls to local authorities weren’t immediately answered.
In command of the aircraft was captain Sumeet Sabharwal, an experienced pilot with 8,200 flying hours accrued. He was joined by co-pilot and first officer Clive Kundar, whom had 1,100 hours under his belt.
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Tata Group will pay out 10 million rupees ($116,830) to the families of each person that died in the crash, according to a post on X citing Tata Sons Chairman N. Chandrasekaran. Air India is a Tata Group-owned airline.
The immediate next steps will be dominated by search and rescue efforts at the crash site. Once crash investigators arrive, they will begin to secure wreckage from the aircraft — critical evidence that could yield clues to help determine the probable cause.
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They will also search for the aircraft’s flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder — the so called “black boxes” — that should reveal what was happening on the plane and in the cockpit in the moments before the tragic crash. This on-scene investigative phase of a major aviation disaster typically can take several days.
