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00:00Emergency teams work into the night in Ahmedabad, racing to clear through the debris at the
00:06site of one of India's worst airline disasters in decades.
00:10Twisted metal and rubble scattered across the landscape here, after a Boeing Dreamliner
00:15bound for London came down in Gujarat's capital.
00:19Its jet tail still intact and wedged into the side of this hostel for doctors and medical
00:23students where several were killed.
00:27The chaos of the moment still clear inside the building, half-eaten meals still eerily
00:31on tables.
00:34CCTV images capture the moment a routine take-off turned into disaster, killing most on board
00:41and leaving their families with unspeakable tragedy.
00:44I dropped my parents-in-law at the airport at 11.30am and they had a 1pm flight and I reached
00:53Baroda and had my food and watched the news.
00:57The atmosphere at home is very sad and I can't say anything because there are a lot
01:01of dead bodies and it's impossible to identify them.
01:06And yet one miraculous survival.
01:09British businessman Vishwa Kumar Ramesh, on board with his brother, was thrown from the
01:14plane.
01:15Dazed, bloodied but somehow alive.
01:18His brother didn't make it.
01:20Vishwa's family back in the UK are in complete shock.
01:23Vishwa's family back in the UK are in complete shock.
01:24When he was on the runway, my dad called him and Vishwa said, we're going to take off soon.
01:30And then literally like two minutes later, he video-called my dad.
01:34As he crashed, he said, our plane's crashed, all of that.
01:38I don't know where my brother is, I don't see any other passengers.
01:41I don't know how I'm alive, how I exited the plane.
01:45Air India says there were 169 Indian nationals on the flight, as well as 53 people from the
01:52UK, one Canadian and seven Portuguese nationals.
01:57It's the first crash involving this Boeing model that comes amid growing scrutiny of the
02:01aviation giant after years of safety concerns and accusations of cutting corners at the cost
02:08of lives.