On Thursday, the Air India flight AI171 was en route to London from Ahmedabad when it crashed shortly after takeoff from Sardar Vallabhai Patel International Airport, ramming into a doctors' hostel of BJ Medical College in Gujarat's Ahmedabad.There were ...

An Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad shortly after takeoff killed 274 people, including passengers, crew, and residents on the ground.

Civil Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu said the country has very strict aviation safety standards and robust protocols, and everything will be done to further improve safety. "Any theory going around the plane crash will be analysed,

Shortly after the crash, Air India issued a statement confirming the incident and later added that 241 out of the 242 people aboard the ill-fated plane were confirmed dead. There is only one person who has survived the crash and is currently undergoing treatment at the hospital.

The pilots of London-bound Air India flight AI-171, which crashed within a seconds after take-off from Ahmedabad aiport - sent a final distress call Air Traffic Control at 1.39 pm, the Aviation Ministry said on Saturday (14 June). Officials said the crew made the distress call to ATC after the aircraft couldn’t climb past 650 feet.

Zeenat Aman shared her grief on Instagram, reflecting on her emotional experience aboard an Air India flight shortly after the Ahmedabad plane crash tragedy.

He said there could be many other possibilities for the crash such as fuel contamination, and glitches in software and control systems

While investigations are ongoing, Sameer Sinha, Secretary of Ministry Civil Aviation told media on Saturday, June 14 that the flight (AI-171) did not face any challenges in its previous trip from Paris to Delhi and Delhi to Ahmedabad,