It was a Balmi in the residential hostel of BJ Medical College on Thursday afternoon and the canteen was working with the students getting lunch.

The room was echoed with jokes, feasts between friends and a strange sound of academic discussion.

13:39 By local time, Cafeteria had at least 35 people. Some had already collected their food and were roaming around, while others were in queue waiting for their turn.

The students mixed with doctors and family members. Then, everything changed.

The normal of the canteen we were pierced by the sound of approaching the jet engine – and then the room exploded.

Less than a minute ago, flight AI171 took the bus 1.5 km (4,800 ft) away from the runway at Ahmedabad airport.

Air India 787 Dreamliner was bound to London, with 242 people.

But something frightening had gone wrong, and in just seconds after its wheels exit the ground, the aircraft was in trouble. At the top of the doctors hostel – a meyade call was sent before crashing in a busy residential area – sending a large -scale fireball in the sky and all but one was hitting one person on board.

The BBC has spoken to eyewitnesses, in which the students who were in the hostel, with friends of trainee doctors, who died and their teachers met together in a few seconds – and after that.

People could not work immediately on the nearby land which happened.

A doctor, who works with a college kidney science department, says he and his colleagues were in their building, about 500 meters away, when he heard a “deaf sound” outside.

“First, we thought it was lightning. But then we were surprised, could this 40C be possible in dry heat?”

The doctor ran out.

When he heard some people shouting: “Look, come here, an aircraft has crashed in our building.”

The next few minutes were a spot. The visuals of anarchy landed in the premises because people were trying to escape – or find out what happened.

The brothers Prince and Krishi Patni were on their bikes just a few meters from the hostel when they heard the noise.

The 18 -year -old Prince told the BBC, “Within seconds we could see something that was mixed with the feather of an aircraft.”

“We reached the spot, but the heat was intense by the explosion and we could not enter the hostel. There were many debris.”

The brothers, along with some other volunteers in the local region, were physically waiting for the heat to decrease before an attempt to enter the building. He worked with the police to move some debris from the entrance.

When they finally reached the canteen, they could not see anyone.

The dark, dense clouds of smoke surrounded the room. There is a smell of burnt metal in the air. The brothers, who were going to play cricket a few minutes ago, began to remove the cooking gas cylinder to avoid any other explosions, 20, explained to Krish.

Brothers and other volunteers then saw a pile of suitcases and went to move them. What came out further, he said, there was a wet in the intestine.

Behind them, they started excluding people’s shapes.

Most were alive. Some people were filled with food in their hands, some had food plates in front of them, and some had glass in their hands.

They were all badly injured.

They were also silent in shock. A few minutes ago he was getting his normal afternoon. Now, they were surrounded by metal pieces of aircraft.

“He did not even get a chance to react,” said another doctor who was in a nearby building.

A second year student, who lives in the hostel, was among those who managed to escape.

He was sitting in his normal place – a large table on the corner of dirt, next to one of the walls – with nine others when the plane crashed.

He says, “There was a huge explosion and a terrible scary sound. The next thing we knew, we were under the huge boulder, without getting stuck anywhere,” they say. “The fire and smoke of the crashed aircraft were close to our face and it was difficult to breathe.”

He received severe chest wounds in the accident and is still undergoing treatment at a local hospital. And he does not know what happened to his friends.

Many eyewitnesses told the BBC that the huge wing of the aircraft was first pierced through the roof, then in parts of the torso. The loss was the most serious where the wing collapsed.

In anarchy, students began jumping from high as the second and third floors to escape. The students later explained how only one of the stairs was blocked by debris.

It is not known how many people were killed on the ground.

Dean of BJ Medical College and Civil Hospital, Dr. Minakshi Parikh told the BBC that four of his students had died, as well as relatives of four students.

But it may take days to establish how many and those who were killed in fact: investigators need to rely on DNA to formally identify the bodies found in the debris.

And it was not just the people in the canteen who were killed.

There was just a few kilometers away Ravi Thakur, who worked in the hostel kitchen. He went out to give lunch box to other hostels around the city. His mother was left behind as usual.

When he heard the news, he went back but got complete chaos. Nearly 45 minutes had passed and the place was filled with local, firefighters, ambulance workers and employees of Air India.

He tried to search for his mother, but he did not get it.

Back to the main hospital block, teachers are still trying to make an understanding of anarchy.

A college professor told the BBC, “I used to teach these students and knew them personally. The injured students are still being treated in the hospital, and they are our priority at the moment.”

Meanwhile, Ravi Thakur is still looking for his loved one, even his expectations have faded rapidly.