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More than 240 die as Air India flight crashes in Gujarat following take-off The FT has a different take, looking at the pressure on Boeing. The paper calls it the worst aviation disaster in more than a decade. It is the first crash of that model of plane since it entered service in 2011 – it comes as Boeing is trying to “rebuild trust” following two previous crashes in 2018 and 2019. Read a full summary of today’s UK newspapers

Miracle of man in seat 11A who walked away The Daily Express says there is one survivor from the Air India Flight 171 crash after the plane plunged shortly after take off, police have confirmed. The flight from Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India was bound for London Gatwick Airport. Officials said 242 passengers and crew were on the aircraft, including 53 British nationals, 169 Indian nationals, one Canadian national and seven Portuguese nationals. Read a full summary of today’s UK newspapers

The miracle of seat 11A: BRIT SURVIVES INDIA PLANE CRASH HORROR The Daily Star also calls it a “miracle” noting he was sat in seat 11A and quotes the survivor’s family as saying “he had no idea how he walked away from the wreckage”. The paper says the doomed Air India flight was carrying 53 British nationals, including a boy of two and a four-year-old girl, who are both confirmed dead in the horror crash that has killed over than 200 people. Read a full summary of today’s UK newspapers

MIRACLE BRIT IN SEAT 11A The Sun says “Miracle Brit in seat 11A” – the seat of Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, a father from Leicester who was the only survivor of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner crash which killed all the other 241 passengers and crew on board. Read a full summary of today’s UK newspapers

Almost all of Friday’s newspaper front pages report on the tragic Air India plane crash in which 241 passengers and crew were on board. Only one person survived – a British man sat in seat 11A. The papers dub it the “miracle of seat 11A.”

Almost all of Friday’s newspaper front pages report on the tragic Air India plane crash in which 241 passengers and crew were on board. Only one person survived – a British man sat in seat 11A. The papers dub it the “miracle of seat 11A.”

The US Secretary of State stressed that Israel’s airstrikes on Iran were a unilateral decision, despite Iran’s claims of American support for the attacks.

Friday’s UK news is dominated by Israel’s attack on Iran – and analysis into whether the attack might spiral into a wider conflict, the Air India plane crash in which one person – a British man – remarkably survives. The media are assessing what might have caused the crash and attempting to assign blame. Also topping the UK news, is the major blood cancer breakthrough as a new therapy is rolled out on the NHS in a “world first.”

Cliff Notes – Tom Fletcher apologises for ‘insensitive’ Instagram post after fatal Air India crash Tom Fletcher apologised for an Instagram post about flying, made shortly after the fatal Air India crash, which resulted in the deaths of 241 people. He described the post as ‘insensitive’ and deleted it upon learning of the tragedy, expressing condolences to those affected. Fletcher is not alone in facing backlash; Mark Wright also apologised for a scheduled post coinciding with the crash, citing a ‘horrendous coincidence’. Tom Fletcher apologises for ‘insensitive’ Instagram post after fatal Air India crash Tom Fletcher has apologised and deleted…

Thousands of blood cancer patients in England will be the first in the world to get a new “Trojan horse” drug that sneaks into cancer cells and kills them from within.