The Air India flight fell from the sky on Thursday and killed at least 270 people in Gujarat state, officials said Saturday.

Dreamliner, bound for London, issued a mayday call shortly before it crashed around lunchtime on Thursday, bursting into a fireball as it hit residential buildings, in one of the worst plane disasters the country has seen.

The Gatwick-bound Boeing 787 struck a medical college hostel in a residential area of Ahmedabad minutes after take-off on Thursday.