Air India, Ahmedabad and plane crash
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The horrific crash of Air India Flight AI171 on Thursday, June 12, 2025, has left the nation in profound grief, with the confirmed death toll now sta
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Indian investigators have recovered the digital flight data recorder or the black box of the Air India flight that crashed a day earlier.
This comes nearly a month after a Turkish company managing operations at nine major Indian airports lost its security clearance, following Ankara's stance supporting Pakistan during Operation Sindoor.
Air India Flight 171 crashed into a hostel near Ahmedabad airport after a failed take-off. The pilot's distress call, reporting a lack of thrust, was the last communication received. Investigators suspect insufficient thrust caused the Boeing Dreamliner to overshoot the runway.
The Turkish government has denied reports claiming that Turkish Technic carried out maintenance on the Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner that crashed after take-off from Ahmedabad. The clarification follows online speculation about possible technical lapses.
Loychusak, who is now 47, recently took to Facebook to share his shock after knowing that the only survivor of the recent crash in Ahmedabad was also seated in 11A. “The lone survivor of the plane crash in India was sitting in the same seat number as me, 11A. Goosebumps,” he wrote.
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It seemed impossible, but shortly after news broke that an Air India flight had crashed in the city of Ahmedabad, video started circulating on social media showing a man walking from the scene in a bloodstained shirt.
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