A year after surviving the Air India plane crash in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad, the lone survivor Viswashkumar Ramesh says he continues to struggle with anxiety, sleepless nights and painful memories. AHMEDABAD: A year after surviving the Air India plane crash in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad, the lone survivor Viswashkumar Ramesh says he continues to struggle with anxiety, sleepless…
Families of those killed in last year’s Air India plane crash gathered at the site on Friday to mark the anniversary of the disaster, still awaiting answers about its cause. A year after deadly Air India crash, families await answers On June 12, 2025, a Boeing 787 crashed into a medical college shortly after take-off…
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It’s been one year since Air India’s flight 171 crashed in Ahmedabad. It’s sole survivor, Viswashkumar Ramesh, is still battling demons from the tragedy, having lost his younger brother Ajay in one of Ahmedabad’s worst aviation disasters By Naomi CantonA year after limping out shell-shocked from the AI 171 plane with towering flames and black…
4 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Jun 14, 2025 10:45 AM IST Air India will be fully transparent in the investigation into the crash of its Boeing 787-8 aircraft and will support the probe process as long it lasts, the Tata group airline’s chief executive officer Campbell Wilson said Friday. In a recorded statement from Ahmedabad, the…
Viswashkumar Ramesh, the sole survivor of Thursday’s Air India flight 171 crash that killed 241 people, defied all odds to make it out alive. Remarkably, he escaped from the front of the aircraft — an area typically considered less safe than the rear in the event of a crash. Viswash, who is currently recovering from…
3 min readAhmedabadUpdated: Jun 14, 2025 03:55 PM IST Eight of Air India’s 33 Boeing 787 aircraft have so far been inspected following the directive issued Friday by aviation safety regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) for enhanced safety inspection of the aircraft type, Civil Aviation Minister K Ram Mohan Naidu said Saturday. The…
5 min readUpdated: Jun 17, 2025 07:58 PM IST Multiple airlines across the globe cancelled their flights after safety checks, while a host of others reported mid-flight scares amid adverse weather conditions and technical snags in the past 72 hours. Airlines are likely on high alert following the fatal Air India crash in Ahmedabad last…
5 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Jun 19, 2025 12:54 AM IST Former Civil Aviation Minister and senior NCP leader Praful Patel on Wednesday hit out at Singapore Airlines – a 25.1 per cent stakeholder in Air India – over what he termed as “deafening” and “surprising silence” following the crash of Air India flight AI-171 last…
4 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Jun 19, 2025 08:58 AM IST Tata group airline Air India is reducing its international services on wide-body aircraft by 15 per cent till at least mid-July due to a combination of factors that include enhanced safety inspections of its aircraft following last Thursday’s deadly crash of one of its Boeing…
