Of the 230 passengers on board, 169 were Indian nationals, 53 British nationals, seven Portuguese nationals and one Canadian national, Air India said earlier in the day in a statement

At least five medical students, one PG resident doctor and the wife of a superspecialist doctor from the BJ Medical College in Ahmedabad have been killed and over 60 medical students have been injured

As rescuers struggled to find survivors in the charred wreckage and pull out the injured, many of them with grievous burns, officials tried to assess the human magnitude of the disaster

Unofficial reports said up to 25 people in the medical complex could also have died

According to Air India, of the 230 passengers, 169 were Indians, 53 British, seven Portuguese and one Canadian. The other 12 people on board were two pilots and 10 crew members

The search was also on for the aircraft's black box, the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder, for clues to understand what happened in the last crucial moments of the doomed flight to London's Gatwick airport

The Indian Medical Association expressed deep sorrow over the tragic loss of lives in the plane crash at Ahmedabad

A team of doctors from the IMA, Gujarat branch, assisted by the IMA-Medical Student Network, has been promptly deployed to the incident site and City Hospital, Ahmedabad, to assist in emergency medical care

"As per the information I have received so far, the plane, after losing its balance, crashed over the boys' hostel building of the BJ Medical College. And as it was lunchtime, most of the students and resident doctors were there for lunch," the Federation of All India Medical Association (FAIMA) claimed