An Air India flight has reportedly crashed after taking off from Ahmedabad Airport in western India on its way to London's Gatwick airport.

This week’s horrifying plane crash in Ahmedabad, India, happened at a critical juncture in the history of Air India, one of the world’s oldest airlines and the country’s flagship.

Only the passenger in seat 11A on Air India Flight 171 lived to tell the tale, a survival nothing short of a miracle.