At least 270 died when the Air India flight crashed into the campus of a medical college in Ahmedabad shortly after takeoff on Thursday. Only one passenger among the 242 aboard survived. At least 29 others on the ground, including five medical students inside the hostel, were also killed.

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