An Air India flight bound for London crashed in a huge fireball minutes after takeoff in Ahmedabad, in western India, killing 241 passengers. According to Air India, just one British national luckily escaped with very minor injuries, while 241 of the 242 passengers on the aircraft did not survive.
169 Indians, 53 British nationals, 7 Portuguese nationals, and 1 Canadian were among the passengers, as per Air India. A senior police official stated, “We are still verifying the number of dead, including those killed in the building where the plane crashed.” The pilot sent mayday call to the ATC but after some time ATC was not able to communicate to the pilot.
Air India Crash Death Tolls Live Updates
An example of a rare event is the tragic loss of Air India flight AI171, which was traveling from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick. 241 people were killed when this plane, traveling from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick, crashed on Thursday afternoon shortly after takeoff, making it one of the worst aviation disasters in recent times.
On Friday morning, the airline confirmed the casualties. Around 242 people were on board the 12-year-old Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner when it took off from the airport at 1:38 pm. The only survivor, Vishwas Kumar Ramesh, is being treated at a nearby hospital and has been recognized as an Indian-British national.
British individual is only passenger to survive the plane crash
The amazing survival story of a British guy who walked away from the debris of the Air India accident that killed 241 people. The Boeing 787 headed for London, and Vishwashkumar Ramesh was in seat 11A when it crashed in Ahmedabad, western India, not long after takeoff. According to Air India, 52 British nationals and 169 Indians were among the other passengers and staff members that killed.
The BBC was informed by Nayan- his brother that while “it feels great seeing Vishwashkumar doing well,” he was concerned about his another brother, Ajay, who was also traveling. In a social media video, Mr. Ramesh was seen approaching an ambulance under huge smoke in the distance.
Amit Shah, was later seen with him in a hospital bed. He provided his boarding card, which included his name and seat number, according to media. Born in India and residing in the UK since 2003, the businessman has a wife and a son who is four years old.
PM Modi in Ahmedabad
Both the Ahmedabad Civil Hospital and the crash sites were visited by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday. The prime minister was seen talking to authorities and assessing the situation in a number of social media videos and images.
What is a mayday call?
There were 242 persons on board an Air India flight headed for London when it crashed in western India, and just one Indian origin British national survived. The Boeing 787 took off Thursday from Ahmedabad airport in Gujarat, a state in western India.
However, only five minutes after taking off, it crashed into the residential area of Meghani Nagar, India’s civil aviation authorities reported, following the issuance of a mayday call. In voice radio communications, pilots and sailors use the globally recognized “mayday” call as a distress signal to alert a life-threatening situation.
Experts disagreed on the crash’s possible cause
The reason of the fatal Air India plane crash is a matter of debate among aviation professionals. The Boeing 787, which was headed for London, crashed on Thursday shortly after taking off from Ahmedabad airport in Gujarat, a state in western India, killing 241 people on board.
One expert says that it could be due to bird hits. According to a former pilot, both engines seem to have lost power prior to the accident. There is no official reason has been stated by GOI till now, so we have to wait for the official update and Black box.
What is a Black Box?
Investigators are trying to recover the black boxes from the Air India aircraft that crashed in Ahmedabad, in western India, on its way to London. They have black boxes (officially called “crash-survivable memory units”) that can store important data, but the batteries that run their location beacons only survive for around 30 days.
They are high-visibility orange rather than black, thus the name is misleading. The origin of the name is disputed by experts, but it has come to represent the pursuit of explanations in aviation crashes.
A separate Flight Data Recorder (FDR) and a Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) are used to capture pilot speech and other cockpit noises. Some devices serve both purposes. In order to assist avoid future tragedies, they are required on civil flights. However, they are not intended to determine fault or blame.
Rescuers search for missing people
In this disaster, an Air India plane crashed into a medical college dormitory in Ahmedabad, killing 241 people in the plane. Today, rescuers searched for missing persons and aircraft parts. Only one person survived the lunch hour crash of the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner carrying 242 passengers on its way to Gatwick Airport south of London.
Additionally, there were fatalities on the ground; according to media, the number might reach 70-80. Through the night and early morning, rescue workers kept searching for missing airplane parts among the wreckage, which may have contributed to the plane’s accident shortly after takeoff.
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