An Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner airplane, flying as flight AI171 from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick, crashed simply after takeoff from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport at 1:39 PM IST on Thursday. 242 folks, 230 passengers and 12 workforce participants, have been provide at the flight. Former Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani was once additionally provide at the flight.
Air India confirms that flight AI171, from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick, was once inquisitive about an twist of fate as of late after take-off.
The flight, which departed from Ahmedabad at 1338 hrs, was once sporting 242 passengers and workforce participants on board the Boeing 787-8 airplane. Of those, 169 are…
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The twist of fate happened within the extremely populated Meghani Nagar locality as regards to the airport, with pictures indicating dense black smoke billowing from the crash website. The airplane, bearing the registration quantity VT-ANB, was once flown through Commander Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, a Line Training Captain with 8,200 hours of revel in, and First Officer Clive Kundar with 1,100 hours. As in step with the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), the copilot made a mayday name to Air Traffic Control (ATC) after commencing from runway 23, however no 2d reaction was once won. The airplane went out of the airport boundary quickly after.
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Emergency groups, together with seven fireplace engines, have been deployed to the incident website. The twist of fate was once showed through Air India thru a commentary on X: “Flight AI171, operating Ahmedabad-London Gatwick, was involved in an incident today, 12 June 2025. We are ascertaining the details and will share further updates at the earliest.”
Flightradar24 knowledge means that the airplane had in the past flown from Delhi to Ahmedabad at the similar day. The DGCA is probing the rationale in the back of the crash and rescue efforts are ongoing. More knowledge is awaited.