London bound Air India 787 Dreamliner crashes at Ahmedabad

[smevchenko]

Ahmedabad: Passenger plane heading for London crashes after take-off in Ahmedabad, India

Air India confirms an "incident" on flight AI171 from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick.

www.bbc.co.uk

Reported that an Air India flight from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick has crashed just after take-off.

Looks like a 787, which would be the first complete loss of that particular type I think.

Horrible, no chance of survival looking at the images online.

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

What a fucking shit week in the news. 242 on board.

 

[The blue phantom]

Dreamliner. Horrible news.

 

[Lowtower]

Just watched some of the videos and seen the pictures.

Horrific stuff

 

[Manchester_lalala]

Awful news.

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

Just watched some of the videos and seen the pictures.

Horrific stuff

Fully fuelled. I can’t see any survivors from this, sadly.

 

[youngbob]

Think there might be at least a couple of survivors judging by some video footage going around.

If this is from this morning, let's hope for more good news (what little good news there's likely to be). Nothing graphic in the second video (top right), just a few people being transferred to a medical area on trolleys.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Awful.

It's a bad world where I'm hoping it's nothing to do with the Pakistan issues.

 

[BlueHammer85]

Think there might be at least a couple of survivors judging by some video footage going around.

heard reports of many being stretchered away, so hopeful there will be some.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

Sad news. I hope there are survivors.

 

[dubblue]

heard reports of many being stretchered away, so hopeful there will be some.

Could be people on the ground but hopefully there are survivors

 

[youngbob]

I don't know much about planes myself, but a few people who seem to are speculating that there was just too much weight on board? A few pointing to the massive amount of fuel in the tank?

 

[meltonblue]

I don't know much about planes myself, but a few people who seem to are speculating that there was just too much weight on board? A few pointing to the massive amount of fuel in the tank?

The video I saw looked more like power failure.

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

Could be people on the ground but hopefully there are survivors

Confirmed on Sky it went down into a residential area. I mean it doesn’t get any worse than that. Those poor people.

 

[oakiecokie]

Just coming through. Shocking news !!

 

[Kirkstall Blue]

Confirmed on Sky it went down into a residential area. I mean it doesn’t get any worse than that. Those poor people.

The video looks like the plane was landing I hope some may have survived very sad 242 people their families must be distraught waiting for news

The plane crashed on the BJ medical college hostel mess.

Latest some have been taken to hospital, reports say many MBBS students have also lost their lives. Rest in peace all those people:(

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

53 British nationals on board.

 

[Big Joe Corrigan]

The video looks like the plane was landing I hope some may have survived very sad 242 people their families must be distraught waiting for news

It was taking off, then seemed to start dropping, awful.

 

[oakiecokie]

heard reports of many being stretchered away, so hopeful there will be some.

It could be neighbours from the area where it came down as I can`t see any passengers surviving that crash I`m afraid.

 

[inbetween]

The video of the aircraft paints a very strange picture. Wheels still down, flaps look retracted, the engines sound like they're running with no signs of damage/smoke.

On the 787 a turbine is automatically deployed underneath the fuselage to generate electrical/hydraulic power if power is lost (eg. if both engines were lost) and it doesn't look deployed.

It looks like a takeoff performance mishap to me.