The crash happened just weeks after the company cut a deal with the U.S. government to avoid taking criminal responsibility for a pair of deadly crashes in 2018 and 2019.

Densely populated pockets are located around airports in many cities across India and Thursday's Ahmedabad plane crash, in which at least 30 people were killed on the ground as well, has got residents worried about a tragedy like that hitting closer home.

While Boeing 787 Dreamliner has experienced minor accidents in past with no fatalities so far, this is the aircraft's first fatal crash.

On June 12, 2025, the Meghani Nagar area of Ahmedabad was sent into shock when an Air India Boeing 787‑8 Dreamliner (VT‑ANB) crashed. The flight, which was bound for London, crashed shortly after taking off from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport.

Air India's flight AI 171, with more than 242 on board flying to London, crashed shortly after takeoff in Ahmedabad this afternoon, in one of the worst aviation disasters in aviation history.

A PASSENGER plane heading to London has crash landed in India. At least 242 people were on board the Air India aircraft as it smashed into the ground near to an airport in Ahmedabad. The plane was

Ramesh Viswashkumar, the only known survivor out of the 242 people onboard an Air India plane that crashed in Ahmedabad on Thursday, had been sitting near an emergency exit of the London-bound flight and managed to jump out,