The Globe and Mail reports in its Friday edition that more than 240 people were killed when an Air India plane bound for London crashed moments after taking off from the city of Ahmedabad on Thursday in the world's worst aviation disaster in a decade. A Reuters dispatch to The Globe says that with 242 people on board, the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner had only one survivor after it crashed onto a medical college hostel during lunch hour. The sole survivor is a British national of Indian origin and is being treated in hospital. It was not immediately clear how many of the dead had been on the aircraft or on the ground. The only surviving passenger was in seat 11A, next to an emergency exit. The man told Indian media how he had heard a loud noise shortly after Flight AI171 took off. "Thirty seconds after takeoff, there was a loud noise, and then the plane crashed," 40-year-old Viswash Kumar Ramesh told the Hindustan Times, which showed a boarding pass for seat 11A in that name. "It all happened so quickly," he told the paper. "When I got up, there were bodies all around me. I was scared. I stood up and ran. There were pieces of the plane all around me," he said. The passengers included 217 adults, 11 children and two infants.