The cricket teams of both Australia and South Africa, playing the ICC Test Championship Final at Lord’s Cricket Ground in London, wore black armbands and observed a minute of silence for the victims of the Ahmedabad plane tragedy.
A total of 241 passengers aboard the Air India Flight 171 died shortly after the Boeing Dreamliner crashed into the building of a medical college. The flight was set to travel to London from Ahmedabad.
A total of 229 passengers and 12 crew members died in the tragedy. Only 1 passenger survived miraculously.
The Air India Flight 171 was carrying 169 Indians, 53 British, 7 Portuguese, and 1 Canadian national.
An additional 28 medical students died and 60 others were injured after the Boeing Dreamliner crashed into the students’ hostel buildings of B. J. Medical College in Ahmedabad.
