{"id":178440,"date":"2025-06-12T13:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T13:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/178440\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T13:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T13:03:11","slug":"bhx-confirms-tragic-air-india-flight-was-not-heading-to-birmingham-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/178440\/","title":{"rendered":"BHX confirms tragic Air India flight was not heading to Birmingham Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Birmingham Airport has shut down claims that a plane carrying up to 242 people, which crashed in India this morning, was heading to the city.<\/p>\n<p>The Air India passenger plane crashed in a fireball near Ahmedabad Airport.<\/p>\n<p>Footage shared on social media showed black smoke billowing into the sky following the crash.<\/p>\n<p><b>READ MORE: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/travel\/air-india-flight-carrying-242-31840320\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Air India flight carrying 242 people to London Gatwick crashes in Ahmedabad;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><b>Air India flight carrying 242 people to London Gatwick crashes in Ahmedabad<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Officials have not yet confirmed if there have been any casualties.<\/p>\n<p>A report by The Sun initially said a source had told the paper that the plane was heading to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Birmingham;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Birmingham<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=67ec6fc9-65d2-4b0c-b55e-ee73660ce693&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Don&#039;t miss the biggest and breaking stories by signing up to the BirminghamLive newsletter here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><b>Don&#8217;t miss the biggest and breaking stories by signing up to the BirminghamLive newsletter here<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"caas-img caas-lazy has-preview\" alt=\"An\u00a0Air India passenger plane &quot;carrying up to 242 people heading for the UK&quot; has crashed in a fireball near Ahmedabad Airport in India.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0cb4e0ea42339be8d19078fb196aec58.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>An Air India passenger plane &#8220;carrying up to 242 people heading for the UK&#8221; has crashed in a fireball near Ahmedabad Airport in India.<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/birmingham-airport\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Birmingham Airport;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Birmingham Airport<\/a> bosses said it was &#8220;not a BHX flight&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>London Gatwick has since confirmed that the plane was heading to the airport.<\/p>\n<p>It said: &#8220;We can confirm that flight AI171 that crashed on departure from Ahmedabad Airport today was due to land at London Gatwick at 6.25pm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/JcXF3MxQGZs3GoiEA8W2fn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Get breaking news on BirminghamLive WhatsApp;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><b>Get breaking news on BirminghamLive WhatsApp<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Emergency officials rushed to the site of the crash, pictures and videos on social media platform X show.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Air India said: &#8220;Flight AI171, operating Ahmedabad-London Gatwick was involved in an accident on June 12.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At this moment, we are ascertaining the details.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The airline said it would share further updates at the earliest opportunity on its website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Birmingham Airport has shut down claims that a plane carrying up to 242 people, which crashed in India&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[73476,37891,855,11949,748,393,4884,730,73475,73548,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-178440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-ahmedabad-airport","9":"tag-air-india","10":"tag-birmingham","11":"tag-birmingham-airport","12":"tag-britain","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-india","16":"tag-london-gatwick","17":"tag-passenger-plane","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114670534994832107","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}