JetBlue flight skids off runway into grass in Boston, all passengers safe
A JetBlue flight landing at Boston's Logan International Airport rolled off the runway on Thursday, the Associated Press reported, citing an airport spokesperson.
While no person onboard JetBlue Flight 312 was injured, the runway remained closed Thursday afternoon while crews assessed the aircraft.
Samantha Decker, who works with the Massachusetts Port Authority, said that the passengers were transferred to the terminal in a bus. The plane was coming from Chicago.
The incident comes on a day when a passenger plane crashed in India early Thursday.
The Air India plane, bound for London, crashed into a medical college in Ahmedabad after takeoff, killing over 200 people.
. The Boeing 787-8 crashed into a residential area called Meghani Nagar five minutes after taking off at 1:38pm (08:08 GMT).
This is the first crash of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, according to the Aviation Safety Network database. Boeing said it was 'working to gather more information.'
India's aviation regulatory body said the aircraft gave a mayday call, signalling an emergency, but then did not respond to the calls made by the airport traffic control.
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- Indian Express
Ahmedabad plane crash: ‘Felt like an earthquake, then there was fire, heard screams'
With belongings like table fans, shoes and books packed into bags they could find, clothes tied up in bedsheets, MBBS students and resident doctors of B J Medical College evacuated the buildings that were their place of comfort until Thursday afternoon. The police barricades had extended further, controlling access as heavy-duty cranes began dislodging parts of the Air India AI 171 flight thrust into the concrete walls of the Attulyam hostels blackened with soot. As scheduled passenger planes continued to fly overhead, Deep Davla, a first-year MBBS student rolled a suitcase, his friend Ritav from second-year carrying more belongings in a cardboard box meant for mangoes, to load on their scooter. Deep Davla was on the third floor of the hostel building at the time of the crash. Wiping the sweat off his face in the sultry Saturday afternoon, he told The Indian Express, 'Pehele bhukamp jaisa laga, phir uske baad achanak se aag aa gayi, phir chillane ki aawaz aayi, phir hum seediyon se jaane ka try ki wahan bhi aag thi (first it felt like an earthquake, then suddenly there was a fire, and we could hear screaming… then we went towards the stairs, there was fire there as well'). The boys then came to the balcony and saw vehicles burning on the ground floor. The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner also blasted through the hostel building Thursday afternoon. 'Then a vehicle close to us caught fire and we thought it was best to jump as there were more vehicles below. So we climbed down from the railings to the first floor and jumped from there then we jumped the boundary wall and ran,' he said. Davla came to study at BJ Medical College from North Gujarat. There were resident doctors from Arunachal Pradesh, Kerala and other states as well, who were vacating. Tadie Mra, a PG student of Gujarat Cancer Research Institute (GCRI), hails from Arunachal Pradesh and had moved in only four days before the crash. As he got on to a bus with his belongings, he told The Indian Express, 'On the day of crash, I was having lunch at the mess. However, I got a call for an urgent biopsy that was to be done. I rushed there. And after I reached the hospital, the crash happened.' Tadie said that two of his friends sustained injuries. 'They have not been able to sleep since this mishap. Such is the trauma,' he said. Tadie said that they have got good accommodation at their college. A senior official of the B J Medical College said that the process of vacating started Friday. Official sources said that the blocks have been 'badly hit' and the buildings have become 'inhabitable'. Sources added that the students who had left the debilitated buildings have been provided other accommodations on the college campus itself. The students are now taking back their belongings from Attulyam blocks, sources said, adding that they were allowed to take their luggage after getting a green light from the police to enter the building. An MBBS student from Kerala, who was wheeling a bag and carrying some belongings, said on condition of anonymity, 'The place is not livable anymore'. An official of GCRI said, 'GCRI has two blocks in Attulyam and 100 students were staying. Some of them took their luggage on Friday and the rest moved it today.' 'Most of the students are taking belongings that are very essential like books and clothes along with important documents,' the official said.
Indian Express
38 minutes ago
- Indian Express
Ahmedabad plane crash: Gujarat orders to issue on-the-spot death certificates, assigns grief counselor for victim families
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The Hindu
2 hours ago
- The Hindu
Ahmedabad plane crash: Crash narrowly missed residential area and three hospitals, staving off a larger death toll
Air India's Boeing 787 crashed into a hostel at B.J. Medical College in a portion of sparsely populated area, bordered by dense settlements and at least three hospitals, including the 1,200-bed Civil Hospital, significantly reducing the potential for a greater tragedy. 'If the aircraft had fallen three seconds earlier, it would have fallen atop our colony. Had it fallen three seconds later, it would have crashed into the Civil Hospital within the B.J. Medical College premises,' said Parmar Vikram Singh, a shopkeeper in the densely populated Meghani Nagar that is located across from the residential campus of medical college. The colony houses 151 blocks, each with 24 flats, he said. The crash killed 241 out of 242 onboard the aircraft, apart from the deaths among the medical college students on the campus. While right behind the crash site is Meghani Nagar, to its immediate right is the Military Hospital inside the Cantonment. There are two other hospitals in the vicinity i.e. the Civil Hospital, and, a little further, is the Gujarat Cancer Society Medical College, Mr. Singh said. At the crash site, adjacent to the mess building and four blocks of the college hostel where the aircraft plummeted, is a massive open plot. Calculations using Google Maps show that a straight path to the Civil Hospital is located at a distance of 750 metres from the crash site, and the Cancer College is at a distance of 1.83 km. The Military Hospital is only about 330 metres from the site. Investigators are working to establish the precise sequence of events, but initial observations suggest the aircraft came down in one of the few relatively open patches available within this urban stretch — a tree-lined zone, with portions of open fields — thereby narrowly avoiding densely populated areas and critical infrastructure. That the widebody jet did not impact high-rise housing blocks or the sprawling hospital facilities nearby likely prevented a far larger loss of life. Mr. Singh grew teary-eyed recalling the narrow escape he had as a resident of Meghani Nagar. 'I am feeling emotional because when the crash happened, there was no screaming heard from the site. The deaths were instantaneous,' he said.
