An carrying 242 passengers crashed near the Ahmedabad airport in Gujarat on Thursday, ANI reported, quoting the State Police Control Room.

said that the flight, AI171, was slated to travel from Ahmedabad to London. “At this moment, we are ascertaining the details and will share further updates at the earliest,” the airline said in a social media post.

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation said that the aircraft took off at 1.38 pm and crashed just five minutes later, the agency added.

Out of those who were on board, are Indian nationals, 53 are British, seven are Portuguese and one is Canadian.

Visuals on social media showed a large column of smoke billowing from the site of the crash.