New Air India crash videos show students jumping off balcony as smoke billows

Several videos have surfaced showing how people in nearby hostels tried to save their lives by climbing down from balconies after the London-bound Air India flight, with 242 on board, crashed into the BJ Medical College Hostel near Ahmedabad airport.

Ahmedabad crash: MBBS students jump from hostel to escape fire in new video

Several videos have surfaced showing how people in nearby hostels tried to save their lives by climbing down from balconies after the London-bound Air India flight, with 242 on board, crashed into the BJ Medical College Hostel near Ahmedabad airport.

In the videos, accessed by India Today TV, MBBS students can be seen trying desperately to climb down from the second and third floors by tying clothes together.

The fire can be seen billowing in front of the hostel in the visuals, with people shouting in panic. A few students can also be seen tying ropes made of bedsheets, while others climb down using the railing in a desperate bid to escape.

In another video accessed by India Today TV, a firefighter is seen climbing a ladder to the third floor of the hostel to rescue trapped students, as smoke billows from the building.

Although all on board, barring one lone survivor, died in the crash, nearly 30 people on the ground were charred to death from the impact.

On June 12, as the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner plunged at a vertical speed of 475 feet per minute from an altitude of 625 feet, its tail crashed into the college hostel’s mess, where several students were having lunch at around 1:43 pm, roughly five minutes after the flight took off from the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport.

Many medical students and resident doctors had just sat for their meal at the hostel mess — situated barely a kilometre from the airport — when the tail-side portion of the aircraft rammed into it, turning an ordinary lunch hour into a horrific nightmare