Lunch plates abandoned plane parts embedded in walls after Air India jet hit doctors hostel

Follow our live coverage here.

AHMEDABAD, India - Lunch break at a doctors’ hostel in India’s Ahmedabad turned fatal for many when parts of an Air India aircraft crashed through the roof of its dining area as the plane hurtled to the ground moments after take-off, killing more than 240 people.

Only one passenger survived the crash of the London-bound Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner jet on June 12, the world’s worst aviation disaster in a decade.

As many as 24 people on the ground were also killed, according to local media.

A day after the tragedy, Mr Thakur Ravi, who worked in the kitchen at the B.J. Medical College hostel, is still searching for his mother – a cook there – and his two-year-old daughter, whom he left under her care.

The last time he saw them was before he set off to deliver lunch boxes to senior doctors at the hospital, about half an hour before the crash.

“All the other ladies who cook food at the hostel managed to escape, but my mother and daughter got left inside... I have searched everywhere but have not found them,” he told reporters on June 13.

At least four undergraduate students and five relatives of students were killed in the crash, a resident doctor, who is part of the junior doctors’ association at the college, told Reuters, on condition of anonymity.

Images of the dining area shortly after the incident showed wheels and other parts of the aircraft embedded in the walls, while debris and belongings of the students, including clothes and books, lay scattered on the floor.

Steel tumblers and plates still containing some food lay on the few tables that were left intact, with a section of the aircraft that was partially wedged on top of the damaged building, giving