LONDON and DELHI -- An Air India airliner carrying 230 passengers and 12 crew members en route to the United Kingdom crashed into a building shortly after takeoff on Thursday, leaving 246 dead and at least one surviving passenger, local officials and the airline said.

Indian investigators have recovered the digital flight data recorder or the black box of the Air India flight that crashed a day earlier.

An Air India plane, en route to London, tragically crashed in Ahmedabad shortly after takeoff, claiming over 200 lives, including many British nationals. The Boeing 787-8 struck a medical college and residential area,

As news of the Ahmedabad crash came in, families of the victims of Flight 182 from 1985 immediately expressed shock, concern, sympathy and memories.