'Will Never...': Teen Denies Shooting Doomed AI Crash Video, Claims It Was Screen-Recorded
Aryan Asari, a 17-year-old from Ahmedabad, recorded the viral video of Air India Flight 171's crash. He is traumatised after witnessing the crash that killed 265 people.
The police on Saturday questioned a 17-year-old boy, Aryan Asari, who lives in the Aravalli district of Ahmedabad, and had allegedly recorded Air India flight 171's haunting crash video ,which soon went viral.
Aryan was living with his father in Laxminagar, a neighbourhood very close to the airport's runway. The teenage boy's father works with the Gujarat Metro Rail Corporation Ltd.
The viral video in which the Air India aircraft is seen going down and eventually turning into a fireball was reportedly shot by Aryan.
Here is the video of #Ahmedabad plane crash pic.twitter.com/PzfatXexwj — किरण कारंजेकर (@KSKvoice) June 12, 2025
After his name was reported by various media organisations as the source behind the viral video, a city crime branch team visited his residence and questioned him.
According to The Times Of India, Aryan denied shooting the video himself in the questioning and said that it was taken by his friend and that he had only screen-recorded it.
He added that he had shared the video with his father, who is likely to have further circulated it.
Teen Battles Trauma And Anxiety After Witnessing Horrific Crash
According to The Indian Express, the 17-year-old is traumatised and has been struggling to sleep since he witnessed the crash.
Speaking to The Indian Express, Aryan said, 'I had never heard the loud sounds that accompany aeroplanes taking off or seen a plane flying so low. My father had told me about it… My friends back in our village wanted to see how they appear in the sky. So I decided to take a few videos that afternoon, right after we finished lunch. I did not imagine I would capture a crash."
He further said that he believed that he was witnessing the plane's landing when the doomed aircraft was going down.
'I was confused as it had appeared to be taking off and then began wobbling… When it ended up in a ball of fire with a deafening explosion, I got scared," he said.
The teenager said that now he feels he won't be able to sit in an aeroplane. Meanwhile, one of his family members said, 'He was not able to sleep on Thursday after he saw the news and realised what he had filmed was the final moments that would haunt the families of 242 victims on the plane and more from the ground."
Air India Flight AI 171, a Boeing 787‑8 Dreamliner, crashed 32 seconds after takeoff at 1:38 p.m. IST on June 12. The flight was flying from Ahmedabad to London and carrying 242 people.
The aircraft crashed over the hostel block at B.J. Medical College in the Meghani Nagar area of Ahmedabad. At least 265 people were killed, and only one passenger survived the plane crash. Former Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani was also among the victims who died in the crash.
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