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At least 240 peo­ple were killed when an Air In­dia plane crashed Thurs­day in­to a med­ical school short­ly af­ter take-off. It was the lat­est in a long list of avi­a­tion dis­as­ters this year.

One pas­sen­ger sur­vived the crash but every­one else aboard the Boe­ing 787 was killed. More peo­ple died on the ground af­ter the plane crashed and gen­er­at­ed a large fire­ball. Black smoke bil­lowed from the site where the plane crashed and burst in­to flames near the air­port in Ahmed­abad, a city of more than 5 mil­lion and the cap­i­tal of Gu­jarat.

All the air­craft crash­es and near miss­es have fu­elled many wor­ries about fly­ing.