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Ahmedabad plane crash 2025
June 14 , 2025
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- An Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner operating as Flight AI171 from Ahmedabad to London's Gatwick Airport crashed on 11th June 2025.
- The pilots gave a ‘Mayday’ call immediately after the take-off, signalling the life-threatening emergency.
- The Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft was operated by Air India from Ahmedabad Airport, in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, to London Gatwick Airport in the UK.
- This is the first fatal crash and the first hull loss involving a Boeing 787 since its introduction in 2011.
- Also, Air India's first hull loss since the bombing of Air India Flight 182 in 1985.
- It is the deadliest single aircraft crash in the history of aviation in India.
- This is also a first widebody aircraft crash in the country in 29 years after the 1996 Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision, which involved a Saudia Boeing 747.
- This is the first crash ever of the Dreamliner since it went into service in 2009.
- The crash is under investigation by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) of India.
- The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) is a division of the Ministry of Civil Aviation.
- India's aviation authority DGCA and Air India also launched investigations into the crash.
- The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is a statutory body of the Government of India to regulate civil aviation in India.
- It became a statutory body under the Aircraft (Amendment) Act, 2020.
- It investigates aviation accidents and incidents, maintains all regulations related to aviation and is responsible for issuance of licenses pertaining to aviation, Headquartered in Gurugram, Haryana, India.
- The airline is owned by Air India Limited, which is owned by the Tata Group (74.9%) and Singapore Airlines (25.1%).
- It is the second-largest airline in India in terms of passengers carried after IndiGo.
- It was founded in 1932 as Tata Airlines by J. R. D. Tata.
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