US EditionAir India Pilots' Chilling Cockpit Exchange Before Devastating Crash - Liverpool Echo
AHMEDABAD, INDIA, JUL 12 – Preliminary findings show fuel cutoff switches caused both engines to fail shortly after takeoff, killing 260 people including 19 on the ground, with investigations ongoing.
- On June 12, 2025, Air India Flight AI171, a Boeing 787-8, crashed shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad, India, killing 260 people and destroying multiple buildings.
- Investigators found that both fuel control switches were turned off shortly after takeoff at 625 feet, causing loss of engine power and a stall, while ruling out bird strike.
- The aircraft hit trees, an incineration chimney, and five buildings including a doctors' hostel, resulting in severe structural damage and fire that destroyed the plane.
- Cockpit voice recordings captured a pilot asking, "why did you cut off?" followed by a "MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY" call, while sole survivor Vishwash Kumar Ramesh said, "I don’t know how I survived."
- India's AAIB continues investigating the crash with Boeing and other experts assisting, and families have called for cockpit recordings to be released for closure.
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Air India Plane Crash Victims' Families Left With More Questions After Report
The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau released a preliminary report on its probe into the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad, Friday night. 241 people onboard the aircraft were killed, with only one survivor.
According to a preliminary investigation report, the kerosene power switches of the two engines of the Boeing, which crashed on 12 June, were brutally cut.
Air India’s AI171 flight to London crashed on June 12 in the Indian city of Ahmedabad, killing 241 of the 242 people on board. The only survivor was British citizen Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, who managed to escape the remains of the plane through an opening in the fuselage. The impact caused a fireball that fell on the dining room of a medical school, where several students ate lunch, destroying in the process five buildings of the complex. This has…
Accidental, mechanical, or intentional?: Cause of Air India plane crash - that took 229 lives
Air India is the latest in a slew of Boeing crashes, and finally, answers are trickling in about what caused the latest tragedy. The aeroplane was taking off from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad at 8 a.m. for a scheduled flight to London, but moments later, the aeroplane crash-landed into a nearby hostel. Almost immediately, the talk around the crash started revolving around all the recent crashes that have been tied…
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