A UK couple who died in the Air India crash shared a video just before boarding, celebrating the end of their holiday.

Fiongal Greenlaw-Meek and Jamie Meek were on board the London-bound flight from an airport in India’s western city of Ahmedabad when it crashed into a residential area shortly after taking off.

More than 200 people died in the crash.

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Greenlaw-Meek shared a video to his Instagram account, The Wellness Foundry, in a now-expired story from the airport.

The couple were in good spirits as they spoke to the camera.

“We are in the airport, just boarding,” he said. “Goodbye, India.”

“10-hour flight back to England,” Meek said.

The pair then playfully discuss their biggest takeaway from the trip.

“What’s your biggest takeaway, Jamie,” Greenlaw-Meek said.

“I’ve done this already,” Meek said.

“On a different thing,” Greenlaw-Meek said.

“Oh, right. What’s my biggest takeaway? I don’t know,” Meek responds.

“Yeah, fascinating. Great. Thanks,” Greenlaw-Meek said while laughing. “Thanks for your contribution.”

“My biggest takeaway is don’t lose your patience with your partner.”

“Yeah. You’re already starting to,” Meek jokes.

“You already snapped at me while we were having chai at the airport.’

“I can see you’ve learned nothing.”

The pair then both laugh before Greenlaw-Meek says they’re “going back happily, happily, happily calm.”

The flight, AI171, was bound for London’s Gatwick Airport, where it was due to land at 6.25pm local time (1.25pm ET).

A reception centre has been set up at the airport to provide information and support to relatives of victims.

One video captured the moment the aircraft, gaining altitude after just taking off, suddenly began to descend in midair, before crashing down in a huge plume of fire and smoke.

All flights out of Ahmedabad’s Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport were suspended following the incident.

However, they have since resumed at a limited capacity, the airport said in a post on X — formerly known as Twitter.

In the final moments before the crash, Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, a seasoned pilot with over 8200 flight hours, issued a desperate Mayday call, according to The Sun.

“Mayday ... no thrust, losing power, unable to lift,” he radioed, as the aircraft struggled to stay airborne.

The plane crashed into the BJ Medical College and Hospital hostel, also killing people inside.

At least three medical students died, Swapnil Bhalodia of the Indian Medical Association Medical Students Network in Gujarat said.

Between 50 and 60 medical students have been admitted to local hospitals, according to the Federation of All India Medical Association.

The statement said two or three students were in intensive care.

Air India said that 242 people were on board the plane, 169 of them Indian nationals and 53 British nationals.

There were also seven Portuguese nationals and one Canadian national, the airline added in a statement.

At least one passenger on board the flight survived, local police said.

According to Reuters, local police said the man had been in seat 11A.

The Hindustan Times named the survivor as a British national, Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, and said he was receiving treatment.

What appears to be a copy of the flight manifest, shared by news agency IANS, lists Vishwash Kumar Ramesh as having been assigned seat 11A.

The Hindustan Times said it spoke to Ramesh in a local hospital, and quoted him as saying: “Thirty seconds after takeoff, there was a loud noise and then the plane crashed.

“It all happened so quickly.”

A senior doctor at the Ahmedabad Civil Hospital, where a majority of the dead and injured people were taken, said the death toll is likely to rise.