40 Years After Jet Crash, Guj Hospital at Heart of Yet Another Airline Tragedy

Its 100-acre campus — which has four four-storey buildings and two-storey dining halls and hostel buildings — bore the brunt of India's worst single-aircraft crash this week. But Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Medical College in Ahmedabad was also at the heart of the rescue-and-relief operations four decades ago when 133 people died in another tragic air crash just 2.5km from the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel airport.

- Ateeq Shaikh

AHMEDABAD: Its 100-acre campus — which has four four-storey buildings and two-storey dining halls and hostel buildings — bore the brunt of India's worst single-aircraft crash this week. But Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Medical College in Ahmedabad was also at the heart of the rescue-and-relief operations four decades ago when 133 people died in another tragic air crash just 2.5km from the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel airport.