Boy who filmed Air India crash was trying to show friends 'how planes fly'

Aryan Ansari,17,captured the Air India crash in Ahmedabad while filming aircraft to show his friends ‘how planes fly’ (Pictured: X/@ANI/SWNS)

The teenager who filmed the Air India crash has said he would not ‘sit on a plane’ again after witnessing the disaster.

Aryan Ansari,was standing on a terrace of a three-storey building to film the Boeing 787 on his phone as it left Ahmedabad airport on Thursday afternoon,in order to show his friends ‘how planes fly.’

He captured the doomed flight AI 171 bound for London Gatwick as it smashed into the ground before exploding in a ball of fire less than a minute after taking to the sky.

The disaster claimed the lives of all but one of 242 people on board,53 of whom were British.

Some 30 victims had been identified using DNA samples provided by relatives,authorities confirmed.

Vigils to honour the dead have taken place in both the UK and India.

An investigation into the cause of the crash is ongoing involving India’s Air Accident Investigation Bureau and the US National Transportation Safety Board.

Air India has been ordered to inspect its Boeing 787-8 and Boeing 787-9 fleet as a ‘preventive measure’.

Workers scour wreckage of the tailfin of Flight 171. Just one of the 242 people on board survived the disaster (Picture: ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock)

Policemen stand guard next to a building damaged in the air crash (Picture: AP)

The Dreamliner involved in the crash had been delivered to the airline in 2014 and had flown between Ahmedabad and London Gatwick 25 times in the last two years.

The last words picked up by air traffic control from a panicked flight deck were ‘Thrust not achieved. Falling. Falling. Mayday. Mayday.’

One of the two black boxes has been discovered,although authorities have yet to say whether it was the flight data recorder or the cockpit voice recorder.