Click to view full size

One pas­sen­ger sur­vived the crash of an Air In­dia plane bound for Lon­don that killed at least 240 peo­ple Thurs­day in Ahmed­abad, one of In­dia’s worst air­line dis­as­ters in decades, of­fi­cials said.

The death toll in­cludes med­ical stu­dents who were in a col­lege hos­tel when the plane hit the build­ing short­ly af­ter take­off, said Vid­hi Chaud­hary, a top state po­lice of­fi­cer in the north­west­ern city.

“Most of the bod­ies have been charred be­yond recog­ni­tion,” she said.