Air India disaster: NSG team deployed at plane crash site in Ahmedabad

Apart from central and state government agencies, a team of the National Security Guard (NSG) has been deployed at the site of the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad in which 265 people lost their lives.

According to official sources, the NSG team is at the site to assist other agencies in relief operations, and they do not have any investigative powers.

The London-bound AI171—a Boeing 787 Dreamliner—with 242 people on board crashed into a medical college complex in the Meghaninagar area moments after taking off from the airport on 12 June afternoon. While all except one passenger and crew on board the plane died, there have been casualties from the medical college hostel mess the Air India plane crashed into.

NSG commandos were seen at the crash site on the hostel building, where the tail of the ill-fated aircraft has been stuck since the crash.

Agencies, including the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau, DGCA, Ahmedabad crime branch and local police, among others, are involved in the probe into the incident.

Sources said officials from the National Investigation Agency (NIA) also visited the crash site in Meghaninagar on Friday.