Air India Crash in Ahmedabad: Over 240 Feared Dead, Canadian Citizen Among Victims
Ahmedabad, India – June 13, 2025 – A devastating Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad has claimed the lives of at least 241 people, with one survivor. The London-bound Boeing 787 Dreamliner went down shortly after takeoff on Thursday, June 12th, in a residential area of the city, marking one of India’s worst airline disasters in decades [[3]].
Initial reports indicate the flight,AI 171,carried 242 passengers and crew. The passenger manifest includes 169 Indians, 53 British nationals, one Canadian, and seven Portuguese citizens, in addition to 12 crew members [[3]].
Tragically, the sole Canadian citizen on board has been identified as 32-year-old Nirali Patel, an Indian-origin dentist residing in etobicoke, Toronto. She was returning to Canada from a “social trip” in India [[source]].Her husband is reportedly traveling to India with their one-year-old child.
Rescuers are continuing to work at the crash site, with the death toll including victims from a nearby college hostel that was struck by the aircraft shortly after takeoff [[3]]. One individual miraculously survived the crash [[1]], [[2]].