Death toll in Air India plane crash rises to 270
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Enhanced video of the Air India AI171 crash reveals the Ram Air Turbine deployed, suggesting a possible dual engine failure shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad.
Sabharwal and his co-pilot, Clive Kundar—who had 1,100 hours of flying experience—sent out a frantic mayday call, warning the flight was "losing power."
India has constituted a new high-level committee to independently investigate the Air India Dreamliner crash in Ahmedabad.
The crash of Air India flight AI171, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad has shaken the global aviation community. With hundreds of lives lost, and intense scrutiny from investigators,
India’s oldest airline was facing challenges even before Thursday, when a Boeing jet it operated crashed shortly after takeoff on Thursday and killed more than 240 people on board. Air India hasn’t suffered crashes in its recent past, but it has been working to overcome a legacy of unprofitability and a reputation for shoddy service.
The Air India plane crash on Thursday was one of India’s ... or they may be distracted by an emergency. While comparisons have been made to past accidents like the 1987 Northwest Airlines ...
Modi visited Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, the sole survivor out of 242 people on board the Boeing 787 Dreamliner that crashed near the Ahmedabad airport shortly after takeoff yesterday, a video on his official YouTube channel showed. He also met with some of those who were injured when the plane crashed into a medical school dorm.