Nikita Yadav BBC News, Delhi LightRocket via Getty Images An Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner seen in Copenhagen in May One of the engines of the Air India plane that crashed last week was new, while the other was not due for servicing until December, the airline’s chairman has said. In an interview with an … Read more
Zoya Mateen BBC News, Delhi BBC Aryan Asari shot a video of the plane as it crashed seconds after taking off Every time Aryan Asari heard the sound of an aeroplane, he would go darting out of the house to look for it. Spotting planes was something of a hobby for him, his father Maganbhai … Read more
Two different doomed flights, two different survivors with one thing in common: seat 11A. Vishwashkumar Ramesh, the sole survivor of the Air India crash that killed 241 people on board and several more on the ground after the plane crashed minutes after takeoff last Thursday, has made headlines around the world. The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner struck a medical college hostel … Read more
Investigators have recovered the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) from the crashed Air India flight, a key step in uncovering what caused last week’s deadly accident. The London-bound Air India aircraft, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, crashed soon after taking off on Thursday from the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. At least 270 people have been killed, … Read more
Doctors in India say 270 bodies have been recovered from the site of Thursday’s plane crash in Ahmedabad. The London-bound aircraft crashed into a residential area shortly after take-off killing all but one of the 242 passengers and crew members, a 40-year-old British man. Officials have also been trying to establish how many people were … Read more
Search and recovery teams continued scouring the site of one of India’s worst aviation disasters for a third day after the Air India flight fell from the sky and killed at least 270 people in Gujarat state, officials said Saturday. The London-bound Boeing 787 struck a medical college hostel in a residential area of the … Read more
Search and recovery teams continued scouring the site of one of India’s worst aviation disasters for a third day after the Air India flight fell from the sky and killed at least 270 people in Gujarat state, officials said Saturday. The London-bound Boeing 787 struck a medical college hostel in a residential area of the … Read more
Vikas Pandey, Antriksha Pathania and Zoya Mateen BBC News, Ahmedabad Getty Images It was a balmy Thursday afternoon at the residential hostel of the BJ Medical College and the canteen was teeming with students getting lunch. The room buzzed with the sound of jokes, banter between friends, and the odd bit of academic discussion. By … Read more
Matt Murphy & Joshua Cheetham BBC Verify BBC What exactly happened to Flight AI171 between Ahmedabad and London Gatwick on Thursday afternoon will only be revealed by a detailed investigation, but the moments after take-off can be the most challenging in aviation. Indian investigators will be joined by experts from the US and UK in … Read more
A London-bound Air India plane carrying 242 people crashed into a residential area shortly after take-off in Ahmedabad, western India. The airline says 241 people on the plane were killed – one passenger, a British national, survived and is receiving treatment in hospital. Dramatic footage shows the aircraft taking off before coming down in a … Read more