Ahmedabad Plane Crash | AI171: Mechanical Defect Or Pilot Error?

Ahmedabad Plane Crash | AI171: Mechanical Defect Or Pilot Error? | The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, which was operating as Air India flight AI-171 to London, had taken off from Ahmedabad on the afternoon of June 12 and crashed into the complex of the BJ Medical College - an aerial distance of less than 2 km. The crash took place at 1.39 pm, just 32 seconds after the aircraft took off. Of the 242 people, including 10 crew members and two pilots, on board the flight, only one - 40-year-old Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, a British-Indian who was returning to the UK after a visit - survived. At least 30 people on the ground, including trainee doctors, were also killed.