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Gatwick Bound Plane Crashes in India With 242 on Board
Air India passenger flight with hundreds on board crashes in India BBC 12 JUN 2025 ![]() Plane gave mayday call and then went silent A plane bound for Gatwick airport has crashed shortly after take off in India with hundreds of people on board. The Air India flight was departing from Ahmedabad shortly after 9am BST. Reports suggest at least 242 people were on board. A spokesperson for the airline said Flight AI171, operating Ahmedabad London Gatwick, was involved in an incident today, 12 June 2025. Flight tracking website Flightradar24 posted on social media platform.. We are following reports of a crash of Air India flight AI171 from Ahmedabad to London. We received the last signal from the aircraft at 08:08:51 UTC shortly before 9.09am BST, just seconds after take off. The aircraft involved is a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner with registration VT ANB. HORRIFIC; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDFEtolXG4Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjOHQBdRLGs |
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The Miracle of Seat 11A- British Father SURVIVES Air India Plane Disaster... ANOTHER Boeing Crash
HOW Did That Passenger Survive... It is almost impossible to live through a fully fuelled aircraft crashing into a built up area, say aviation experts BBC 13 JUN 2025 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 'I STOOD UP AND RAN'..... Air India confirmed that there were 242 passengers and crew members on board the Boeing 787 8 Dreamliner, which has a total of 256 seats. ![]() There were 169 Indians, 53 Britons, seven Portuguese nationals, one Canadian and 12 crew on the plane. ![]() MIRACLE SEAT Brit, 40, is Air India crash sole survivor & says I dont know how Im alive as brother just 4 seats down feared dead The sole survivor of the crash has been named as Vishwashkumar Ramesh, a British man who was sitting in seat 11A. An Air India passenger plane bound for Londons Gatwick airport crashed shortly after taking off in Ahmedabad, western India, on Thursday, killing 241 passengers and crew. It later emerged that only one passenger, a British man, had survived. Among those on board were Indian, British, Portuguese and Canadian nationals. More than 200 bodies were recovered from the scene, but it is unclear how many are from those on board the plane, and how many are casualties from the ground. The plane struck a doctors hostel after crashing into the residential area of Meghani Nagar on Thursday According to flight tracking website FlightRadar24, the signal from the aircraft was lost less than a minute after take-off Flight tracking data ends with the plane at an altitude of 625ft The plane gave a mayday call to air traffic control, Indias aviation regulator said. No response was given by the aircraft after that. It crashed into a residential area called Meghani Nagar. Doctors Hostel Struck ![]() The plane crashed into a building used as doctors accommodation at the Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Medical College and Civil Hospital. A photograph taken after the crash shows abandoned tables and plates of food in the canteen of the hostel. At the far end of the room, people have gathered to inspect a huge hole in the wall apparently caused by the impact of the plane. One woman at the scene told ANI that her son jumped from the second floor of the hostel, sustaining injuries, when the plane crashed there. Details are still emerging from the scene. ![]() Air India Disaster -British man is miracle survivor among more than 240 killed..BBC speaks to survivor relative in Britain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seJzlq7k8RY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CL2urpbVMk |
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Air India Co Pilots Chillingly Simple Mistake Which Led to Horror Crash
Air India flight AI171 crashed on Thursday killing all but one of the 242 people onboard and friends and relatives assistance centres have been created at London Gatwick and other airports AP 14JUN 2025 ![]() The co pilot on the doomed Air India flight AI171 pulled the planes wing flaps instead of retracting the landing gear, according to an aviation expert. This simple but devastating mistake caused the plane to crash into the medical college in Ahmedabad, western India, commercial airline pilot and YouTuber Captain Steve said yesterday. All but one of the 242 people onboard the plane, which was destined for London Gatwick Airport, died. Steve, who analyses plane crashes and close calls, said Heres what I think happened, again folks this is just my opinion. I think the pilot flying said to the co pilot said gear up at the appropriate time. I think the co pilot grabbed the flap handle and raised the flaps, instead of the gear. If that happened, this explains a lot of why this airplane stopped flying. Raising the flaps would have caused the plane to lose airspeed and altitude quickly, something Steve stresses would have been very difficult to control. This, he feels, would have led to the horrific impact, marking the worlds worst aviation disaster in a decade. |
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