One passenger survived the crash but everyone else aboard the Boeing 787 was killed. More people died on the ground after the plane crashed and generated a large fireball. Black smoke billowed from the site where the plane crashed and burst into flames near the airport in Ahmedabad, a city of more than 5 million and the capital of Gujarat.

The sole survivor of the Air India crash is a British man, Vishwashkumar Ramesh. A total of 241 passengers and crew were reported to have died, plus others who were in a building hit by the plane.