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An Air India passenger plane carrying more than 200 people crashed after taking off from an airport in the Indian city of Ahmedabad on Thursday.
A new video of last week's Air India plane crash, which killed 270 people, shows the lone survivor, Vishwas Kumar Ramesh, walking away from the crash site as the crashed flight turned into a fireball with plumes of black smoke engulfing the area.
A new bombshell video provides evidence that the Air India Boeing 787 lost power immediately after take-off, an aviation expert claims. Commercial airline pilot Steve Schreiber said the HD-quality clip is a “gamechanger” in diagnosing the cause of the deadly crash.
As part of ongoing investigations, the plane’s black boxes are being analysed. A black box records flight data, and includes a cockpit voice recorder for pilot exchanges and cockpit sounds. It will also pick up engine sounds. Today (Monday 16th) it’s been reported the cockpit recordings have been found.
An Air India plane with more than 200 people on board crashed near the airport in India's city of Ahmedabad, the airline and police officials said.
An Air India pilot turned back his Delhi-bound Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner to Hong Kong airport as a precaution shortly after taking off on Monday, citing a technical issue, Indian media reported. Flight tracking data showed the pilot turning Flight AI315 around less than 30 minutes into the flight from Hong Kong.
Boeing was generating optimism. Then on Thursday a 787 crashed, raising the specter of fresh problems for Boeing and altering the message it planned to send.
Air India flight 171 crashed on a building minutes after takeoff near the airport in India’s western city of Ahmedabad.
Three days after the crash, only 35 bodies had been handed over to relatives from an overall official death toll of 270.
Seven people have died in a helicopter crash in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand. According to the BBC, a helicopter carrying visitors to a number of Hindu religious pilgrimage sites in the Himalayan mountains crashed on Sunday, June 15, during what would have been a 10-minute flight.
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The Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashed shortly after take off on Thursday in what is one of the deadliest plane accidents in terms of the number of British nationals killed. It struck a medical college hostel in a residential part of Ahmedabad, killing 241 of the 242 people on board.