Hundreds gathered in Mumbai today to honour Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, the Air India pilot who has been hailed as a hero for limiting casualties on the ground during last week’s crash.
Captain Sabharwal issued a mayday call to air traffic controllers moments after takeoff and residents on the ground have credited him with avoiding a large residential building that was directly on the flight path.
Investigators have recovered flight AI171's cockpit voice recorder and will analyse the pilots’ final words to help determine the cause of the crash that killed more than 270, 241 of whom were passengers and crew.
An “extremely rare” loss of power from both engines is increasingly being seen as the most probable cause of the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner’s sudden descent.
Meanwhile, at least three Air India flights have been grounded or cancelled in the past 48 hours as India’s civil aviation authority ordered urgent pre-flight checks across Boeing 787 aircraft in the country.
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Key Points
- Multiple international flights cancelled as Air India Dreamliners come under scrutiny
- Hundreds bid emotional goodbye to pilot of doomed Air India flight
- Investigators recover cockpit voice recorder from crashed Air India flight
- Most probable cause of the Air India plane crash revealed
- Young couple among Air India crash victims
- Video: Astonishing moment Air India survivor walks away from crash
Multiple international flights cancelled as Air India Dreamliners come under scrutiny
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Maroosha Muzaffar
Air India has cancelled or delayed multiple international flights operated by Boeing 787-8 Dreamliners following last week’s deadly crash that killed more than 270 people.
Several international routes – among them London, Paris, Vienna, and Dubai – were disrupted on Tuesday as Air India halted operations on multiple flights.
The airline attributed the interruptions to a mix of factors: grounded aircraft, technical issues, restricted airspace, and heightened safety protocols.
In the past two days alone, at least three more Dreamliner flights have either been delayed or taken out of service amid intensified inspections mandated by India’s aviation authority, which is scrutinising all 33 of Air India’s Dreamliners.
A Boeing 777 on the San Francisco–Mumbai route was also sidelined due to a mechanical fault.
WATCH: British wellness couple posted ‘Goodbye India’ video from airport before fatal Air India plane crash
03:30
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Bryony Gooch
‘Why me?’ Six extraordinary stories of sole plane crash survivors
02:30
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Bryony Gooch
The sole survivor of the Air India plane crash that killed more than 270 people somehow walked from the wreckage of the aircraft after it crashed in the city of Ahmedabad.
Vishwash Kumar Ramesh was in seat 11A near the emergency exit, and managed to escape through the broken hatch. He was filmed after Thursday’s disaster limping along the street in a bloodstained T-shirt with bruises on his face.
The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner plummeted seconds after take-off and erupted in a ball of fire, killing everyone else on board.
As extraordinary as it seems, the 40-year-old Briton’s miraculous escape isn’t the first story of a sole air-crash survivor. Dozens of stories have been shared from as far back as 1929, when 34-year-old Lou Foote survived a crash that killed 14 others in Newark, New Jersey.
Here, senior reporter Alex Ross takes a look at six survivor stories.
‘It’s all very raw’: Twenty victims of the Air India plane crash connected to the same London temple
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Bryony Gooch
Thousands of people have been left in mourning after the Air India plane disaster claimed more than 240 lives on Thursday.
But one north-west London community, some 4,000 miles away from the Ahmedabad crash site, is feeling the impact more than most.
Twenty of the victims have connections to the same temple in Harrow, its leader has said, with multiple families now trying to come to terms with what has happened. Among those killed in the Dreamliner disaster are a mother and father who lost their son, a pilot, in a plane crash in France just a few years ago.
Holly Evans reports:
Watch: Miracle moment British survivor of Air India crash emerges from flames of wreckage
Wednesday 18 June 2025 00:30
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Bryony Gooch
India regulator says no 'major safety concerns' on Air India's Boeing 787 fleet
Tuesday 17 June 2025 23:30
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Bryony Gooch
India's aviation safety watchdog said on Tuesday surveillance conducted on Air India's Boeing 787 fleet did not reveal any major safety concerns, days after one of its jets crashed, killing at least 271 people.
"The aircraft and associated maintenance systems were found to be compliant with existing safety standards," the Directorate General of Civil Aviation said in a statement.
The DGCA also said 24 of Air India's 33 Boeing 787 aircraft had completed an "enhanced safety inspection" it had ordered the airline to carry out.
The regulator, in a meeting with senior officials of Air India, raised concerns about recent maintenance-related issues reported by the airline.
It advised the carrier to "strictly adhere to regulations", strengthen coordination across its businesses and ensure availability of adequate spares to mitigate passenger delays, it added.
Experts say investigation into crash 'could take time'
Tuesday 17 June 2025 22:30
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Daniel Keane
Aurobindo Handa, former director general of India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau, has said the investigation into last week's crash would likely be a long process as the aircraft was badly charred.
He added that ascertaining the condition of the black boxes recovered from the crash site was vital as the heat generated from the crash could be possibly higher than the bearable threshold of the device.
Why is recovery of black box crucial to investigation?
Tuesday 17 June 2025 21:30
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Daniel Keane
Amit Singh, a former pilot and an aviation expert, said the recovery of the flight data and cockpit voice recorders, or black boxes, are crucial to piece together the sequence of events that led up to the crash of the Air India flight.
The cockpit voice recorder records pilots’ conversation, emergency alarms and any distress signal made before a crash.
The plane’s digital flight data recorder stores information related to engine and control settings. Both devices are designed to survive a crash.
“The data will reveal everything,” Singh said.
He added that the technical details could be corroborated by the cockpit voice recorder that would help investigators know of any communication between air traffic control and the pilots.
Air India flight to London cancelled because of ‘precautionary checks’
Tuesday 17 June 2025 20:30
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Daniel Keane
An Air India flight on the same route as a plane that crashed last week has been cancelled because of “precautionary checks”, the airline said.
Flight AI159 was planned to depart Ahmedabad, India, at 1.10pm local time on Tuesday, and arrive at Gatwick airport at 6.25pm BST.
Air India’s website shows the flight was initially delayed by one hour and 50 minutes but was later cancelled.
A flight from Gatwick to Amritsar, India, set to depart at 8pm BST was also axed.
Read our full story here.
British families of Air India crash victims feel 'abandoned' by UK Government
Tuesday 17 June 2025 19:30
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Daniel Keane
Families of British victims of the Air India plane crash are experiencing "pain and frustration" due to delays in identifying and repatriating their loved ones, according to a government minister.
Among the deceased, 52 were British nationals. The sole survivor was Briton Vishwash Kumar Ramesh.
Relatives of Akeel Nanabawa, his wife Hannaa Vorajee and their four-year-old daughter Sara Nanabawa, who died in the crash, said they felt “utterly abandoned” by the UK Government and called for more support on the ground in India.
A spokesman for the family, who lived in Gloucester, said they had to make appointments to see consular staff 20 minutes away in a hotel in Ahmedabad while their loved ones “lie unidentified in an overstretched and under-resourced hospital”.
Read our full piece below.
Watch: Miracle moment British survivor of Air India crash emerges from flames of wreckage
Tuesday 17 June 2025 18:30
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Daniel Keane
Experts weigh in on the safety of sitting on seat 11A
Tuesday 17 June 2025 17:30
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Daniel Keane
The miraculous survival of a passenger who escaped moments after his Air India flight crashed, killing all others on board, has sparked debate over whether his seat, 11A, is the safest on a plane.
However, aviation experts say that determining the safest seat is not so simple, as aircraft configurations vary significantly and survival usually depends on a complex combination of factors.
"Each accident is different, and it is impossible to predict survivability based on seat location," Mitchell Fox, a director at the Flight Safety Foundation, a US-based nonprofit, said.
Pictured: Special prayer ceremony held for victims of Air India crash
Tuesday 17 June 2025 16:30
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Daniel Keane
People gathered in Ahmedabad on Tuesday evening to remember the victims of the Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner plane, which crashed last week.
Local residents praise 'hero' pilot
Tuesday 17 June 2025 15:26
Local residents near the scene of the crash on Tuesday said their three-storey apartment building was directly on the path of flight AI171 - and that Captain Sabharwal appeared to have swerved to avoid them in pursuit of open ground.
Jahanvi Rajput, 28, told The Sun that "thanks to the pilot Captain Sabharwal, we survived. He’s a hero. It is because of him we are alive.”
"The green space next to us was visible to him and that’s where he went," she said.
The flight instead crashed into the top floor of an accommodation block where medical students had assembled to eat lunch.
Aviation safety watchdog asks Air India for pilot training records
Tuesday 17 June 2025 14:30
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Daniel Keane
India's aviation safety watchdog has asked Air India for the training records of the pilots and dispatcher for the plane that crashed last week as part of its investigation into the incident that killed at least 271 people.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation also asked all flying schools to conduct training compliance checks, according to the confidential memos, seen by Reuters.
The DGCA said the requests were part of a "regulatory" review of the accident, and also sought details of action taken following the watchdog's audits of Air India in the last few months.
It asked for the details to be provided by Monday.
Multiple Air India flights delayed or grounded in just 24 hours
Tuesday 17 June 2025 13:30
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Daniel Keane
Multiple Air India flights have been delayed, diverted, or cancelled in the past few days amid heightened safety checks ordered by India’s civil aviation authority.
This comes in the wake of the deadly Air India crash in Ahmedabad, which killed 241 people on board and more than 30 on the ground, and raised concerns over Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft operating in India.
An Air India flight from Delhi to Paris, AI143, was reportedly cancelled on Tuesday after mandatory pre-flight checks revealed an issue, the airline announced in a statement. As a result, the return flight, AI142 from Paris to Delhi scheduled for Wednesday, was also cancelled, NDTV reported.
Read our full story by Maroosha Muzaffar below.
Watch: Mourners line streets at funeral of Air India pilot
Tuesday 17 June 2025 12:30
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Maroosha Muzaffar
Passengers deboard for safety after Mumbai-bound Air India plane faces technical issue
Tuesday 17 June 2025 12:00
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Maroosha Muzaffar
An Air India flight from San Francisco to Mumbai via Kolkata experienced a technical issue in its left engine after landing in Kolkata, forcing passengers to deboard for safety.
The delay lasted over four hours. Flight AI180 arrived at the Kolkata airport at 12.45am, when it faced a technical snag and passengers were asked to disembark.
This incident occurred just five days after a deadly Air India crash that killed 241 people onboard.
On Monday, another Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner returned to Hong Kong shortly after takeoff due to a “technical issue”.
The pilot decided to turn back Air India flight AI315 as a precaution, citing safety concerns.
The plane landed safely and underwent checks. The plane is seven years old, Reuters reported.
Family of three UK citizens killed in Air India crash allege ‘disjointed’ response from government
Tuesday 17 June 2025 11:30
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Maroosha Muzaffar
The grieving family of three British citizens killed in the Air India crash has criticised the UK government for a “painfully slow” and “disjointed” response in India.
They say they’ve received conflicting information, lacked access to medical and forensic support, and felt abandoned by UK officials.
The family of Akeel Nanabawa, Hannaa Vorajee, and their four-year-old daughter Sara Nanabawa is urging the UK government to improve its communication with relatives who travelled to Ahmedabad in Gujarat, in the aftermath of the crash.
An undated family handout photo issued by the BBC of Akeel Nanabawa, his wife Hannaa and their four-year-old daughter Sara
A family spokesperson told The Guardian: “There is no UK leadership here, no medical team, no crisis professionals stationed at the hospital.
“We are forced to make appointments to see consular staff based 20 minutes away in a hotel, while our loved ones lie unidentified in an overstretched and under-resourced hospital.”
Abu Nanabawa, Akeel’s cousin said: “It seems to be a universally shared sentiment of frustration at the management of this whole crisis.”
He added: “At the moment, we just want to have the bodies so that we can bury them and mourn properly. In our faith and religion [Islam], it’s very important that the funeral gets done as soon as possible. It’s a part of the grieving process to bury and honour them, to return them as soon as possible and grieve them.”
Top Boeing official meets Air India chairperson to discuss Ahmedabad crash – report
Tuesday 17 June 2025 11:00
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Maroosha Muzaffar
Boeing Commercial Airplanes head, Stephanie Pope, reportedly met with Air India chairperson N Chandrasekaran in India on Monday to discuss the recent crash of a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, which killed 241 out of 242 people shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad.
The meeting, held at Air India’s headquarters near New Delhi, was also attended by top executives from GE Aerospace, which supplied the aircraft’s engines, sources told Reuters.
The cause of the crash is still under investigation.
Air India, one of Boeing’s largest customers, has 33 Dreamliners in its fleet and over 200 new aircraft on order, including 20 additional 787s.
Air India boss tells employees ‘we will figure out’ what caused crash
Tuesday 17 June 2025 10:30
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Maroosha Muzaffar
Air India and Tata Group chairperson, N Chandrasekaran, told employees “we will figure out” what caused the crash during an address to 700 employees.
He also urged employees to remain strong and resilient following the deadly Ahmedabad plane crash, calling it the “most heartbreaking crisis” of his career.
“Criticisms are there, and those of us who are very passionate… who are working on making this airline a great airline, and who genuinely care about what kind of a company we want to build, but it’s not easy to face criticisms. I want you to be strong. If you feel distraught, the word you should remember is determination. We are going to get through this. We need to show resilience. We need to use this incident as an act of force to build a safer airline,” Mr Chandrasekaran said, according to The Indian Express.
“It’s a very complex business…it’s a complex machine, so a lot of redundancies, checks and balances, certifications, which have been perfected over years and years. Yet this happens, so we will figure out why it happens after the investigation. So we just have to stay calm and not put our shoulders down. This is the time to be brave, time to be resolute, time to know that you have the full support,” he told the employees.
Hundreds bid emotional goodbye to pilot of doomed Air India flight
Tuesday 17 June 2025 10:00
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Maroosha Muzaffar
Hundreds paid their respects to Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, the Air India pilot who died in the Ahmedabad crash, at his final funeral in Mumbai on Tuesday.
A prayer ceremony at his Powai home was filled with grief, especially as his 88-year-old father performed the last rites.
Known for his humility and dedication, Sabharwal was remembered as a skilled pilot and devoted son, set to retire early to care for his ailing father.
“Very sad, a young life taken away. Unimaginable,” industrialist Niranjan Hiranandani was quoted as saying by NDTV.
“This is a thoughtful moment, we need to study this thoroughly. We cannot afford for lives to go like this again. The family is devastated. The only justice now is to ensure this moment leads to answers, to reforms. Safety and security must be a priority, not just in aviation, but in every sector.”
Captain Sabharwal, 55, had logged more than 8,200 flight hours.
Preliminary reports suggest he issued a mayday shortly after takeoff, likely attempting to divert the aircraft away from densely populated areas, a decision made in crisis that may have saved many lives on the ground.
“I flew with him for many decades,” said a former cabin crew colleague. “We shared meals, memories, and long hauls. He was a dedicated son and an incredibly skilled pilot. Always peaceful, composed, and grounded. Never flaunted his position, just a wonderful soul.”
Air India flight from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick ‘cancelled due to technical issue’
Tuesday 17 June 2025 09:25
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Maroosha Muzaffar
Air India flight AI-159 from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick was cancelled on Tuesday due to technical issues, according to CNN News18.
Passengers reported they received no clear explanation or refund details.
An AI-159 flight passenger told ANI: “I was going to Gatwick, London, by the 1pm Air India flight, but I have just learned that the flight has been cancelled. The crew members could not give any reason for the flight cancellation or details on a fare refund.”
The flight is now reportedly expected to depart at 11am on Wednesday.
#WATCH | Ahmedabad | Passengers of Air India flight AI-159 from Ahmedabad to London, Gatwick say the flight has been suddenly cancelled
— ANI (@ANI) June 17, 2025
An AI-159 flight passenger says, "I was going to Gatwick, London, by the 1 p.m. Air India flight, but I have just learned that the flight has… pic.twitter.com/XnKUWOMWhI
This comes just days after Air India plane flying from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick crashed just minutes after take-off.
Candlelight vigil held across London for Air India plane crash victims
Tuesday 17 June 2025 09:00
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Maroosha Muzaffar
Candlelight vigils were held across London to mourn victims of the Air India crash, which killed more than 270 people on Thursday.
A multi-faith service in Harrow honoured 20 local worshippers who died, including a father returning home to his daughters.
There were 169 Indian nationals, 53 British citizens, seven Portuguese nationals and one Canadian on the flight.
Another vigil for the crash victims was held outside the Indian High Commission in Aldwych, which was attended by about 100 people, according to the BBC.
At the gathering, Nilesh Solanki from the City Hindus Network and Action for Harmony said: “When so many lives are lost in an instant, it’s hard to comprehend - and we ask the question why.
“Families, hopes, friends, people - vanished.
“Without even knowing the individuals, we felt the pain of these families.
“Coming together in this way is really important - it’s a lesson for all of us to reflect.”
How trainee doctors helped save lives
Tuesday 17 June 2025 08:30
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Maroosha Muzaffar
When the Air India plane crashed into a medical college in Ahmedabad, trainee doctors like Navin Chaudhary, who narrowly escaped the explosion, rushed to help save lives.
The aircraft struck the hostel dining area, killing over 270 people, including 29 on the ground.
“There was fire and many were injured,” said Mr Chaudhary.
“I felt that as a doctor I could save someone’s life,” he said. “I was safe. So I thought, whatever I can do, I should,” he told Associated Press.
Many students and staff, despite their own injuries, immediately began rescue and treatment efforts.
Survivors like Akshay Zala helped identify victims, provide emergency care, and support hospital operations.
“I could hardly see anything as thick plumes of smoke and dust engulfed everything. I was barely able to breathe,” he said.
College dean Minakshi Parikh praised the heroic efforts of the trainee doctors. Many resumed their medical duties the same day to treat the injured.
“They did that and that spirit has continued till this moment,” Ms Parikh said.
“So that is human nature, isn’t it? When our own people are injured, our first response is to help them,” Ms Parikh said.
“So the doctors who managed to escape ... the first thing that they did was they went back in and dug out their colleagues who were trapped inside.”
“They might not even have survived because the rescue teams take time coming,” she added.
Racist comments flood social media platforms in the wake of Air India crash
Tuesday 17 June 2025 08:00
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Maroosha Muzaffar
After the deadly Air India crash that killed 241 people onboard, social media has been flooded with racist and dehumanising comments mocking the victims, often using stereotypes about Indian culture, food, and immigration.
Comment sections on crash-related news stories were flooded with racist stereotypes, portraying the victims as Uber drivers, butter chicken delivery workers, or 7-Eleven owners, ABC News reported.
One comment read: “It was the curry chicken to blame.”
Another said: “The pilot just had some Indian street food.” And another wrote: “Smelled so bad it went up in flames.”
For Pree Shah in New York, the racist reactions to the Air India crash felt deeply personal and upsetting, especially since a family friend attended the medical college where the plane crashed.
“One of my family friends went to the medical college where the plane crashed,” Ms Shah told the outlet.
“It’s personal for some of us and hits close to home.”
Some comments on social media platforms wished actual harm to Indians. “Thank god there will be less immigrants in England. This just in: few houses are up for rent,” one user commented on a Facebook post.
Young couple among Air India crash victims
Tuesday 17 June 2025 07:30
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Maroosha Muzaffar
A young engaged couple, Hardik Avaiya and Vibhooti Patel, from the UK, have been identified as the victims of the Air India plane crash that killed more than 270.
There were 53 Britons among those killed.The couple had travelled to India to celebrate their engagement, BBC reported.
Vigils and prayers were held at the Shree Hanuman Temple in Leicester, where Avaiya had been a dedicated volunteer.
“Hardik was like my small brother, and Vibhooti was like my small sister,” a friend of the couple told the outlet.
Patel worked as a physiotherapist while Avaiya worked in a warehouse.
Dhaval Patel, who worked with Avaiya, said: “We were on our way to pick him up when I got a call to say a plane to Gatwick had crashed in Ahmedabad.
“So we immediately checked the ticket and matched the flight number and we just cried.”
‘Like an earthquake’: Inside the doctors’ hostel hit in Air India tragedy
Tuesday 17 June 2025 07:00
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Tom Watling
Navin Chaudhary's lunch was interrupted by a deafening explosion. Turning, he saw flames engulfing the dining area where he and his fellow trainee doctors were eating.
As the fire advanced, Mr Chaudhary escaped through a window. From the ground, he saw the tail cone of an Air India plane jutting out of the burning building.
Driven by a sense of duty, Mr Chaudhary and his fellow medical students sprang into action.
Investigators recover cockpit voice recorder from crashed Air India flight
Tuesday 17 June 2025 06:30
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Maroosha Muzaffar
Investigators have recovered the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) from the Air India flight that crashed shortly after takeoff outside Ahmedabad airport last week.
All but one passenger died after the London-bound Boeing 787 aircraft crashed into the campus of a medical college in Ahmedabad city on Thursday afternoon. Only one passenger among the 242 aboard survived.
The CVR, which captures audio from the cockpit, including pilot conversations along with the flight data recorder, will be key to determine the possible cause of one of the worst aviation disasters in decades. The flight data recorder was recovered from the crash site over the weekend.
The Air India flight began losing height moments after take-off and erupted in a huge fireball after hitting the accommodation block of a medical college.
Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner flight forced to turn back with technical issue – days after Ahmedabad disaster
Tuesday 17 June 2025 06:00
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Tom Watling
A Delhi-bound Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner flight was forced to turn back to Hong Kong on Monday after the pilot reported technical issues mid-air.
The Air India flight AI 315 departed from the Asian city at 11.59 am local time for its scheduled destination in New Delhi. It reached an altitude of 22,000 feet, and then started descending, according to the flight tracking website AirNav Radar. The plane was 7 years old. Officials said the aircraft landed safely back in Hong Kong around 3.20 pm local time.
Family of three UK citizens killed in Air India crash allege ‘disjointed’ response from government
Tuesday 17 June 2025 05:30
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Maroosha Muzaffar
The grieving family of three British citizens killed in the Air India crash has criticised the UK government for a “painfully slow” and “disjointed” response in India.
They say they’ve received conflicting information, lacked access to medical and forensic support, and felt abandoned by UK officials.
The family of Akeel Nanabawa, Hannaa Vorajee, and their four-year-old daughter Sara Nanabawa is urging the UK government to improve its communication with relatives who travelled to Ahmedabad in Gujarat, in the aftermath of the crash.
A family spokesperson told The Guardian: “There is no UK leadership here, no medical team, no crisis professionals stationed at the hospital.
“We are forced to make appointments to see consular staff based 20 minutes away in a hotel, while our loved ones lie unidentified in an overstretched and under-resourced hospital.”
Abu Nanabawa, Akeel’s cousin said: “It seems to be a universally shared sentiment of frustration at the management of this whole crisis.”
He added: “At the moment, we just want to have the bodies so that we can bury them and mourn properly. In our faith and religion [Islam], it’s very important that the funeral gets done as soon as possible. It’s a part of the grieving process to bury and honour them, to return them as soon as possible and grieve them.”
Air India boss tells employees ‘we will figure out’ what caused crash
Tuesday 17 June 2025 05:15
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Maroosha Muzaffar
Air India and Tata Group chairperson, N Chandrasekaran, told employees “we will figure out” what caused the crash during an address to 700 employees.
He also urged employees to remain strong and resilient following the deadly Ahmedabad plane crash, calling it the “most heartbreaking crisis” of his career.
“Criticisms are there, and those of us who are very passionate… who are working on making this airline a great airline, and who genuinely care about what kind of a company we want to build, but it’s not easy to face criticisms. I want you to be strong. If you feel distraught, the word you should remember is determination. We are going to get through this. We need to show resilience. We need to use this incident as an act of force to build a safer airline,” Mr Chandrasekaran said, according to The Indian Express.
“It’s a very complex business…it’s a complex machine, so a lot of redundancies, checks and balances, certifications, which have been perfected over years and years. Yet this happens, so we will figure out why it happens after the investigation. So we just have to stay calm and not put our shoulders down. This is the time to be brave, time to be resolute, time to know that you have the full support,” he told the employees.
Air India pilot’s last words moments before aircraft crashed to the ground revealed
Tuesday 17 June 2025 05:00
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Tom Watling
The final words of the pilot of Air India Flight AI171 that crashed on Thursday have been revealed, providing new details about the final moments before the aircraft went down.
Indian aviation officials have confirmed the pilot issued distress calls before the Gatwick-bound flight crashed in Gujarat state on 12 June, killing 241 people on board and at least 29 on the ground.
“Thrust not achieved... falling... Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!” the pilot said moments before the aircraft began losing height and erupted in a fireball.
New footage shows miracle moment British survivor of Air India crash emerges from flames of wreckage
Tuesday 17 June 2025 04:30
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Maroosha Muzaffar
This is the miraculous moment the sole survivor of the Air Indiacrash emerges from the flames of the Boeing wreckage.
Passengers deboard for safety after Mumbai-bound Air India plane faces technical issue
Tuesday 17 June 2025 04:01
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Maroosha Muzaffar
An Air India flight from San Francisco to Mumbai via Kolkata experienced a technical issue in its left engine after landing in Kolkata, forcing passengers to deboard for safety.
The delay lasted over four hours. Flight AI
