An Air India flight carrying 242 passengers and crew members crashed shortly after takeoff in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad on Thursday, the airline said.

印度航空公司表示，该公司一架载有242名乘客和机组人员的航班于周四从印度西部城市艾哈迈达巴德起飞后不久坠毁。

Air India said Flight 171 from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick Airport had taken off at around 1:40 p.m. on Thursday. The aircraft was a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, according to Flightradar24, a flight tracking website. There was no immediate information about survivors.

印度航空称，这架编号为171的航班原定从艾哈迈达巴德飞往伦敦盖特威克机场，于当地时间周四下午1点40分左右起飞。据飞行追踪网站Flightradar24显示，涉事飞机为波音787-8梦想客机。目前尚无有关幸存者的消息。

Onboard were 169 Indian people, 53 British, seven Portuguese and one Canadian, the airline said, adding that the injured were being taken to hospitals.

据印度航空，机上共有169名印度人、53名英国人、七名葡萄牙人和一名加拿大人。受伤人员正被送往医院救治。

The plane had been scheduled to land in London at 6:25 p.m., London Gatwick Airport said on social media.

伦敦盖特威克机场在社交媒体上表示，该航班原计划于伦敦时间下午6点25分抵达。

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport, which the aircraft had departed, said that it was closed and that all flight operations had been suspended indefinitely.

航班起飞的萨达尔·瓦拉巴伊·帕特尔国际机场宣布机场已关闭，所有航班运营无限期暂停。

India’s minister of civil aviation, Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu, said that rescue teams had been mobilized to the crash site. “Shocked and devastated to learn about the flight crash in Ahmedabad,” he wrote on social media. “We are on highest alert.”

印度民航部长金贾拉普·拉莫汉·奈杜表示，救援队已赶赴坠机现场。“听闻艾哈迈达巴德发生航班坠毁事件，深感震惊与悲痛，”他在社交媒体上写道，“我们已进入最高警戒状态。”

Bhupendra Patel, the chief minister of Gujarat, the state where the crash occurred, said that a corridor had been set up to quickly transport injured passengers to hospitals for treatment.

坠机所在的古吉拉特邦的首席部长布潘德拉·帕特尔表示，当局已开辟专用通道，加快将伤者送往医院治疗。

Tata Group, the Indian conglomerate that owns Air India, confirmed in a social media post that Air India Flight 171 “was involved in a tragic accident today.”

印度航空所属的印度塔塔集团在社交媒体上确认，印度航空171号航班“今天发生了一起不幸事故“。

Natarajan Chandrasekaran, the chairman of Air India, said that the company was focused on “supporting all the affected people and their families” and that it was doing all it could to assist the emergency response teams at the site.

印度航空董事长纳塔拉詹·钱德拉塞卡兰表示，公司当前的重点是“为所有受影响人员及其家属提供支持”，并全力协助现场的应急救援工作。