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Rescue officials carry a victim's body at the site where Air India flight 171 crashed in Ahmedabad. [Sam Panthaky, AFP]
A London-bound passenger plane crashed in the Indian city of Ahmedabad on Thursday leaving one known survivor from 242 on board, with the jet smashing into buildings housing doctors and their families.
An AFP journalist saw bodies being recovered from the crash site, and the back of the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner hanging over the edge of a building it hit around lunchtime.
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