AHMEDABAD: June 12, 2025. Air India Flight 171 takes off for London Gatwick at 1.38pm on a sunny Thursday with clear visibility. Thirty-two seconds later, disaster strikes. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner carrying 242 people — including two pilots and 10 cabin crew — plunges to earth and crashes 1.7km from Ahmedabad airport. One man lives.For…
MUMBAI: The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) released no report on the Air India Flight 171 crash on Friday, the first anniversary of the tragedy in Ahmedabad that claimed 260 lives. It thus missed the International Civil Aviation Organisation’s (ICAO) 12-month deadline for a final or interim report.The Annex 13 document of ICAO, which lays…
A grab from a video a teen recorded of AI Flight 171 taking off and crashing moments later Ahmedabad: They often say, destiny puts you in the right place at the right time. Seventeen-year-old Aryan Asari of Khanpur village in Aravalli, doesn’t agree, at least after what happened on June 12, 2025. Aryan’s first visit…
Three seconds after Air India Flight 171 lifted off from Ahmedabad, two fuel switches in its cockpit moved to the cut-off position, starving both engines of fuel. Half a minute later, the London-bound Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashed into a medical hostel complex, killing 260 people. It was India’s deadliest aviation disaster since the 1996 Charkhi…
