Ahmedabad plane crash live updates: Former Gujarat CM likely on board; Ahmedabad airport closed

By HT News Desk
Published on: June 12, 2025 11:18 AM IST

Ahmedabad plane crash live: As per initial reports, the flight was taking off from Ahmedabad to Gatwick at the time of the crash. Fatalities due to the crash are unknown.​

Ahmedabad: Smoke billows after a plane crashed near Ahmedabad airport,
Ahmedabad plane crash live updates: An Air India plane carrying 242 passengers crashed after takeoff in Gujarat's Ahmedabad airport. Visuals of the plane crash circulated on social media show plumes of dark smoke in the sky. As per an Air India statement, initial reports, the flight was taking off from Ahmedabad to Gatwick at the time of the crash. Fatalities due to the crash are unknown.



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June 12, 2025 11:18 AM IST

Ahmedabad plane crash LIVE: Pilots made MAYDAY call moments before crash​

Air India Crash live: As per a statement from aviation officials, the ATC stated that the Air India plane aircraft departed from Ahmadabad at 1339 IST from runway 23.

“It gave a MAYDAY Call to ATC, but thereafter, no response was given by the aircraft to the calls made by ATC,” said officials.

The plane crashed outside the airport five minutes after takeoff.
June 12, 2025 11:15 AM IST

Air India plane crash LIVE: Civil Aviation minister 'deeply shocked' after plane crash​

Ahmedabad plane crash: Union Civil Aviation minister Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu stated he was "deeply shocked" after the news of the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad.

"Shocked and devastated to learn about the flight crash in Ahmedabad. We are on highest alert. I am personally monitoring the situation and have directed all aviation and emergency response agencies to take swift and coordinated action," he said on X.

"Rescue teams have been mobilised, and all efforts are being made to ensure medical aid and relief support are being rushed to the site. My thoughts and prayers are with all those on board and their families," he added.

June 12, 2025 11:13 AM IST

Ahmedabad plane crash live news: Former Gujarat CM likely on board, say reports​

Air India plane crash update: Former Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani is suspected to be onboard the Air India plane that crashed near Ahmedabad airport on Thursday, reports TV9. An official confirmation is awaited.

June 12, 2025 11:08 AM IST

Air India plane crash: Video show thick smoke near Ahmedabad Airport​

Moments after an Air India plane carrying 242 passengers crashed, videos showing thick smoke in the air circulated on social media. Residents living near the Ahmedabad airport area captured the visuals of the plane crash.

As per initial statements, the flight en-route to Gatwick crashed five minutes after it took off.

June 12, 2025 11:02 AM IST

Ahmedabad plane crash live news: Passenger plan was en-route to London's Gatwick at time of crash​

Air India plane crash: As per an official statement from Air India, the plane was en-route from Ahmedabad to London's Gatwick at the time of the crash.

The plane took off at 1:38 PM and crashed near the airport five minutes after takeoff.
June 12, 2025 10:56 AM IST

Ahmedabad plane crash live: Ahmedabad Airport closed​

Ahmedabad Airport has been shut down after an Air India passenger plane crashed on Thursday.

June 12, 2025 10:49 AM IST

Ahmedabad plane crash live: Number of fatalities yet to be confirmed​

As per a report by ANI, at least 242 passengers were on board the plane. An official statement is awaited
June 12, 2025 10:47 AM IST

Ahmedabad plane crash live updates: Air India plane crashes in Gujarat​

An Air India passenger plane crashed shortly after taking off at Ahmedabad Airport. As per reports, at least 242 passengers were on board.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/ahmedabad-plane-crash-live-updates-air-india-flight-crashes-ahmedabad-airport-death-toll-news-101749717953751.html

 

[KiwiFuzz2]

I counted 6 non-jeets on the manifest, including 3 people named "Christian."

And for @Otterly 's question about takeoff weights, I don't believe passengers alone could be heavy enough for a plane to go "meh, not gonna do this."

I've been on combi flights where they were unloading quads and shit from the plane.

 

[Otterly]

And for @Otterly 's question about takeoff weights, I don't believe passengers alone could be heavy enough for a plane to go "meh, not gonna do this."

More luggage or manifest I’m thinking, but good to know (memories of going through Heathrow and marvelling at the things people pack into trollies…)
What are you supposed to do if there’s not the lift and speed when you’re trying to take off? Surely there’d be alarms going off all over?

 

[Sneed Lurker]

52 british on board

Was there 52 british or 52 ""british"" people on that plane?

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

https://archive.ph/LCezq

orange reddit has noticed the direct attack on their nationality

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44255602

Honestly, that security cam footage looks like the fucker never got out of ground effect, they may have rotated way too fucking early and basically never flew ...

What are you supposed to do if there’s not the lift and speed when you’re trying to take off? Surely there’d be alarms going off all over?

If you haven't hit V2min you shouldn't be fucking pulling back, never force it into the air, better to slam into the end of the runway and flip. And if you're past V1, you takeoff.

 

[HOMO FOR LIFE RETURNS]

Pls

It's a sign. All jeets must stay in India or death will come on them.

 

[Party Hat Wurmple]

Lucky bastard needs to buy the lottery if true. Seat 11A is way up front so not sure how his ass survived. You'd think he be at the back but maybe the Jeets were all fucking sitting wrong.

"I woke up, and all I could smell was burnt curry. Burnt curry...Well I think I'm going to become a pilot because I can do a better job than those guys."

 

[God's drunkest driver]

While we can see the entire flight from that new angle it's really hard to judge speed or runway remaining from behind like that. A cloud of dirt coming off of the runway may be totally normal affair, or they may have taken too long to get off of the ground which would lend credence to a takeoff configuration issue. In any case, we don't see smoke or flames from either engine so no visible indication of engine damage or compressor stall, and in the other video we don't hear any of the banging that is common during compressor stalls. It sure doesn't look like they made it to 600ft AGL so that must be MSL? The field elevation is 189ft MSL according to wiki. I get a density altitude of roughly 3200ft using ATIS data from the time of the crash which is high but not terrible. The 787 is a great performer, they climb out with authority.

This is all still highly speculative, it does look like AOA remains quite high through the whole sequence, and speed looks low but is hard to judge.

For non plane spergs, this is exactly like trying to merge into the highway after climbing a on ramp while you have your parking brake on and you're stuck on second gear.

It's even worse when you have a fucking electronic checklist holding your hand all the fucking time telling what you're supposed to do next and reminding you of checking for shit on modern aircraft.

Not just checklists, you'll get configuration warnings if something isn't set up correctly unless you garbage in garbage out the thing your inputs for weight and conditions are incorrect.

 

[KiwiFuzz2]

Pls

It's a sign. All jeets must stay in India or death will come on them.

Technically, all the jeets who leave India do die....

...eventually.

 

[Mark Goldbridge]

Alleged that there is current one crash survivor in serious (but able to talk) condition. 50-60 (medical students) Injured total rn and 202 recovered.

https://x.com/BNODesk/status/1933163659460505663

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Lucky bastard needs to buy the lottery if true. Seat 11A is way up front so not sure how his ass survived. You'd think he be at the back but maybe the Jeets were all fucking sitting wrong.

That's fucking insane, looking at the crash site he must've been right in the part that didn't disintegrate at the front and he must've just been in the exact spot where nothing touched him. Amazing.

 

[Symbol of the Chud]

While we can see the entire flight from that new angle it's really hard to judge speed or runway remaining from behind like that. A cloud of dirt coming off of the runway may be totally normal affair, or they may have taken too long to get off of the ground which would lend credence to a takeoff configuration issue. In any case, we don't see smoke or flames from either engine so no visible indication of engine damage or compressor stall, and in the other video we don't hear any of the banging that is common during compressor stalls. It sure doesn't look like they made it to 600ft AGL so that must be MSL? The field elevation is 189ft MSL according to wiki. I get a density altitude of roughly 3200ft using ATIS data from the time of the crash which is high but not terrible. The 787 is a great performer, they climb out with authority.

This is all still highly speculative, it does look like AOA remains quite high through the whole sequence, and speed looks low but is hard to judge.


Not just checklists, you'll get configuration warnings if something isn't set up correctly unless you garbage in garbage out the thing your inputs for weight and conditions are incorrect.

"STOP BLOODY BEEPING!"
"STOP IT! BLOODY STUPID MACHINE! STOP TELLING ME TO REDEEM THE FLAPS!"
Jeets are notorious for thinking they are correct despite all evidence pointing to the contrary. They are the sort of people to look at a warning like that and say "well I am train pilot saar and am do know better than da plane saar."

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

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11A is apparently the Emergency Exit seat.

My guess would be that he opened that thing and hauled ass.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_India_Flight_171#Victims

A 40-year-old British survivor was confirmed to have been rescued from the aircraft, after jumping out of an emergency window.

Wikipedia citing an Indian source.

Watching that airport footage, imagine you are sitting in your seat, tired and bored, and then the plane starts to dip and you have less than 30 seconds to decide to jump out of it. And your survival rate is going up if you can jump at just the right height before the plane explodes.

 

[Shark Senpai]

Forgive my lack of knowledge but aren’t you supposed to hit certain speeds and lift at a certain point along that runway? They look like they NEVER had the speed and lift, aren’t they supposed to abort before that, or is it way too late? So if you’re too slow by ‘almost at the end of the point you should be going fast at ‘ it’s you chicken out and try again?

That's the V1 speed, the speed at which the pilots either commit to takeoff or abort, it's determined by the plane, its weight, and conditions and is generally the highest speed you can safely abort at, aborting at higher speeds is heavily recommended against even in emergency conditions because it's generally considered safer to go around instead. Supposedly the V1 speed for a 787 is generally around 160-175 knots but can be as low as 140 if conditions are good and it's light.

 

[Otterly]

That's the V1 speed

That plane looks like it never hits fast enough from the cctv, although granted the angle might not show that. It looks like it’s going through treacle the whole way

 

[Retarded INTP]

You can definitely feel the negative G when descending. When even a single engine fails you can immediately feel the aircraft fall like a brick.

This. The guys inside 100% knew something was fucked. Your body is really really good to alert you in this sort of situations, even if you're used to fly. You can sort of "feel" like the current trajectory of your plane, most of the time, except if it's really gradual. It wasnt.

 

[DavidS877]

When do they fail? Another stupid question but it looks like they go right off the end of the runway when they’re very low, you can see it kicks up great big clouds of dust. Forgive my lack of knowledge but aren’t you supposed to hit certain speeds and lift at a certain point along that runway? They look like they NEVER had the speed and lift, aren’t they supposed to abort before that, or is it way too late? So if you’re too slow by ‘almost at the end of the point you should be going fast at ‘ it’s you chicken out and try again?
There was a line on a feed that said someone who was on the same plane as it flew in said the AC and entertainment system went off on the previous flight. Now it’s gone.
Incredible someone walked out of it.

You have various speeds. The most important V1 is "Takeoff Abort Speed" if you're airspeed has not yet reached V1 (determined by weight and conditions and runway length) then you stop when something goes wrong like a single engine failure. If you try and stop faster than this then you're likely to go off the runway but that may be the preferred outcome depending on the failure.

Pilots also have an abort point, for example. if you're past 3000' down the runway and haven't reached V1 speed then maybe something is wrong with your performance and you should abort.

It's possible it was an overload. They're going a long way which means lots of fuel so they're already going to be heavy, if that got fucked up then you could see problems.

 

[CaliforniaRaisin]

"Why did I redeem?"

and...

The redeemed.

 

[Otterly]

then you stop when something goes wrong like a single engine failure.

Looking at the cctv there’s a ‘vortex’ of dust under the left wing that’s big and less under the right, but I guess that’s as likely to mean there’s more crap in the field after the runway as it is one engine was off. It just looks like they never had the speed or lift and went for it anyway.
Maybe they got to a certain point and just could t abort it? It’s horrible thinking about this sort of stuff if you fly

 

[Fapcop]

More luggage or manifest I’m thinking, but good to know (memories of going through Heathrow and marvelling at the things people pack into trollies…)
What are you supposed to do if there’s not the lift and speed when you’re trying to take off? Surely there’d be alarms going off all over?

From what I’ve read the plane should be under the max weight, given the fuel needed and number of passengers.

OTOH: It was a 40 C day and it’s India. Probably plenty of passengers who slipped someone a little bribe to not declare their excess luggage.

It certainly doesn’t look like the plane ever had enough speed to take off. My bet is on a maintenance/pilot fuck up, with some new unknown Boeing fuck up coming at a close third.

Apparently the plane was one of the very early 787s manufactured. Number twenty something.

"Why did I redeem?"

and...

The redeemed.

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Ah, Ramesh Viswashkumar! A proper ol’ English name if I ever heard one!

 

[Symbol of the Chud]

"Why did I redeem?"

and...

The redeemed.

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"I'm never flying economy again!"
laugh track

 

[Otterly]

"Why did I redeem?"

and...

The redeemed.

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This should be in textbooks under ‘face of shock.’