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Business Standard
9 hours ago
- Business Standard
Air India Ahmedabad-London flight cancelled after snag on Boeing Dreamliner
Air India's Ahmedabad-London flight AI-159 cancelled after technical snag This marks fourth Air India flight disruption in 24 hours An Air India flight scheduled to depart from Ahmedabad to London on Tuesday was cancelled following a technical malfunction. According to data from Flightradar24, the aircraft assigned to operate the route was a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner — the same model that was involved in the recent Air India crash in Ahmedabad in which 265 people were killed. Flight AI159, which had earlier arrived from Delhi, was expected to resume services on the Ahmedabad-London route. This would have been the first such flight since the recent tragic crash in Ahmedabad. The aircraft was slated for departure at 1:10 pm on June 17. Air India confirmed that affected passengers will be provided refunds. The incident adds to rising concerns over the safety of wide-body aircraft. Earlier on Tuesday, Air India flight AI-180 from San Francisco to Mumbai encountered an engine-related technical issue during a scheduled halt at Kolkata, prompting a precautionary deplaning of passengers. On Monday, flight AI-315, a Dreamliner operating from Hong Kong to Delhi, was forced to return soon after take-off due to a suspected technical problem. On the same day, an Air India Express service from Delhi to Ranchi was also diverted back to Delhi following a suspected snag. On June 13, Air India flight AI-379, operating from Phuket to Delhi with 156 passengers on board, had to turn back mid-flight following a bomb threat. The plane landed safely, and a thorough security screening was carried out before passengers were allowed to disembark. Air India flight crash in Ahmedabad On June 12, Air India flight AI-171 crashed shortly after departing from Ahmedabad, following a Mayday call from the pilot. The tragedy claimed 241 of the 242 lives on board, with a total of 265 bodies recovered — including casualties from the BJ Medical College Hostel located near the crash site. One passenger, Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, survived the crash. The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) has initiated an investigation and has retrieved the black box from the wreckage. In the wake of the disaster, the Tata Group announced a compensation of ₹1 crore for the families of each victim.
India Today
11 hours ago
- General
- India Today
New Air India crash video shows students jumping off balcony as smoke billows
A video has surfaced showing how people in nearby hostels tried to save their lives by climbing down from balconies after the London-bound Air India flight, with 242 on board, crashed into the BJ Medical College Hostel near Ahmedabad airport. In the videos, accessed by India Today TV, MBBS students can be seen trying desperately to climb down from the second and third floors by tying clothes together. advertisementThe fire can be seen billowing in front of the hostel in the visuals, with people shouting in panic. A few students can also be seen tying ropes made of bedsheets, while others climb down using the railing in a desperate bid to escape. Although all on board, barring one lone survivor, died in the crash, nearly 30 people on the ground were charred to death from the June 12, as the Boeing 787 Dreamliner plunged at a vertical speed of 475 feet per minute from an altitude of 625 feet, its tail crashed into the college hostel's mess, where several students were having lunch at around 1:43 pm, roughly five minutes after the flight took off from the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International
NDTV
5 days ago
- General
- NDTV
Open Suitcases, Charred Bodies: What I Saw At The Ahmedabad Plane Crash Site
It was a horrific, heart-wrenching site with plane wreckage, rancid smell all around me. Charred bodies were being taken out by health and relief workers. I was barely 5 km away from the site where the Air India plane AI 171 from Ahmedabad to London crashed, claiming the lives of 242 passengers and crew. There are reports of just one survivor. Though I reached the site within 20 minutes of the news being public, police, fire brigade and ambulances had already reached the place. A charred scooter at the crash site The plane crashed over the hostel buildings of BJ Medical College Hostel in Meghani Nagar, Ahmedabad, killing not only the passengers but also students and some of their family members residing inside. The final death toll is still not known. Former Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani was also on the London-bound plane and was killed in the crash. The injured were taken to Civil Hospital, at Asarwa, near the crash site. The whole wreckage was spread around an area of around 200-300 metres. I could count at least four hostel block buildings that have been completely damaged and burnt due to the crash. Charred bodies, including that of a child, were being carried out from one of those buildings. Onlookers around the damaged wing of the medical college building One part of plane had fallen on the hostel mess, damaging the building. The heat around the area due to the burning plane wreckage, buildings and bodies was so high that mobile phones stopped working. One ambulance driver said that he alone had taken almost 100-120 bodies. How this author's phone stopped working at the site Along with human bodies, animal carcasses could be seen lying everywhere. There were open suitcases, half-burnt clothes, and one broken wing of the ill-fated aircraft could be seen at the BJ Hostel premises. Government officials and political party leaders made a beeline to the site. For the first one hour after the crash, there were large number of onlookers. It was only after NDRF arrived that the area of crash was cordoned off.
