A COBRA meeting chaired by David Lammy was urgently held after the Air India plane crash today.
CCTV footage showed the taking off before crashing in a fireball while carrying 242 people.
It appeared to lose powerin Ahmedabad in the west of India.
Footage shows the plane take to the sky - before it appears to stop climbing and then plummet back down to earth.
The flight then into a doctor’s hostel.
Police are now hunting through the rubble and wreckage for any survivors.
The UK government held a COBRA meeting today - which is a get-together to discuss high-level coordination and decision-making after an emergency.
UK Prime Minister Sirsaid: “The scenes emerging of a London-bound plane carrying many British nationals crashing in the Indian city of Ahmedabad are devastating.”;
The plane was flying to London Gatwick airport and was carrying 230 passengers and 12 crew - including 53 Brits.
after jumping off the flaming jet and was filmed walking away from the wreckage.
In a statement the airline said: “Flight AI171, operating Ahmedabad-London was involved in an accident on 12 June 2025.
“At this moment, we are ascertaining the details and will share further updates at the earliest opportunity.”;
Out of the 242 on board, 169 were Indian travellers, one Canadian and seven Portuguese nationals alongside the Brits.
said he was “desperately shocked”; by Thursday’s air crash in India, sending “prayers and deepest possible sympathies”; to the families of those affected.
“My wife and I have been desperately shocked by the terrible events in Ahmedabad this morning,”; the monarch wrote on Instagram, calling it a “heartbreaking and traumatic time”;.
Brit couple Fiongal and Jamie Greenlaw-Meek are believed to have been the plane and had posted about their “magical experience”; in.
Also believed dead is a British family from Gloucester: Akeel Nanabawa, his wife Hannaa and their four-year-old daughter Sara.
Hours before the crash, the Greenlaw-Meeks - who run the Wellness Foundry, a spiritual wellness centre and yoga studio - posted onabout their “mind-blowing”; trip.
Fiongal said: “So it’s our last night inIndiaand we have had a magical experience really, there have been some quite mind-blowing things that have happened.”;
Jamie added: “We really have been on quite a journey, and then just spending the last night here in this amazing hotel, and we have just had the most delicious Tali food.
“It was a perfect way to round up the trip. Excited to share it all with you.”;
A final video showed the pair - who have been together since 2019 - sitting in the airport ahead of their 10-hour flight back to the UK.
The US-built Boeing 787 is one of the world’s most advanced airliners and the accident is the first fatal crash involving the plane.
