Harrowing footage captures the specified fewer seconds Air India Flight 171 was airborne earlier tragically crashing soon aft takeoff.
The footage, captured by a CCTV camera astatine Ahmedabad Airport and shared by Indian quality outlet NDTV, shows that the formation lone hovered supra crushed for a abbreviated 32 seconds aft it took off.
NDTV adds that the flight’s full trajectory—from gearing toward takeoff to the clip of impact—only amounted to 59 seconds, based connected the CCTV footage.
The daze footage depicts the level lifting disconnected earlier struggling to regain its altitude and rapidly descending onto the ground. There is past a visible, ample explosion.
The aircraft, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, was carrying 242 people—230 passengers and 12 unit members. It was traveling from the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport successful Ahmedabad, India to London’s Gatwick Airport.
Air India has since confirmed that lone 1 rider survived the level crash, with each different 241 radical connected committee confirmed to beryllium dead. The level besides deed a hostel for doctors erstwhile it crashed, expanding the fig of casualties to much than 260 truthful far. The nonstop fig is inactive varying among reports.
The crash’s sole subsister is Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, a 40-year-old British nationalist of Indian origin, per CNN. He’s presently being treated astatine a infirmary adjacent the airdrome and is successful “not precise captious condition,” according to Dr. Rajnish Patel, a prof and caput of country astatine the Ahmedabad Civil Hospital, who spoke to CNN.
“I don’t cognize however I americium alive,” Ramesh said according to his younger brother, Nayan Ramesh, quoted successful The New York Times.
Rescue officials enactment astatine the tract wherever Air India formation 171 crashed successful a residential country adjacent the airdrome successful Ahmedabad connected June 12, 2025. / SAM PANTHAKY/AFP via Getty Images
India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) has initiated a ceremonial probe into the origin of the crash, Union Minister of Civil Aviation Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu announced connected X Thursday.
Boeing President and CEO Kelly Ortberg besides released a connection indicating that the institution spoke to Air India’s Chairman, Natarajan Chandrasekaran, to connection their enactment and that the “Boeing squad stands acceptable to enactment the probe led by India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau.”