One Canadian was on the London-bound Air India flight that crashed with more than 240 people on board shortly after takeoff, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday.
The plane crashed Thursday in a residential area of India’s northwestern city of Ahmedabad, a city of more than five million people.
Local police say there are no known survivors.
Carney said he was “devastated” to learn of the crash and is receiving regular updates on the situation. The prime minister added that Canadian transport officials are in close contact with their international counterparts.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called the crash “heartbreaking beyond words.”…