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

 

[Darkholme's Dungeon]

If I remember correctly if you injure someone China with your vehicle (run them over, knock them off their bike etc) you are forced to pay for the injured person's medical bills for the rest of their lives. If you kill them however you only pay for the funeral so I'm the long term the funeral is much cheaper. There has been accounts of drivers coming back to finish off the person they hit. Also is why there are tons of insurance fraudsters in China jumping in front of people's vehicles pretending to be hit.

It's be reformed now, it just means to gov takes a cut by beating the shit out of you or making your life miserable in smaller places. Appeals are for loosers just like the USA.

On the topic of planes I wonder what kind of compensation to victims families get and do the people on the ground get anything. Air India isn't exactly a high end airline and I don't know what India's policy is for shit like this.

Aeroflot Flight 811 gives you an example. Be on a trip to your honeymoon with husband, literally get in a mid-air collision with VVS jet bombers in good visibility, fall 4000m to the ground on a magical Soviet carpet (debris) into frozen Siberia, get paid the equivalent of $20 by Aeroloft for surviving the crash when your husband was shredded into pieces.

According to wikedpedo:

The investigation blamed the aircraft manufacturer for unsatisfactory maintenance instructions, the supervising authorities for failing to supervise the maintenance crew, who lacked the skills to perform the heavy maintenance, and the flight crew for failing to notice the condition during pre-flight control checks.

So basically Brazil made a plane for Brazil.

That's Air Astana Flight 1388. The final report indicated that the the maintaince crew swaped the input wiring and reversed the alierons (but not the spoilerons). There was also a Russian military flight where they swapped the input eletrctronic wiring, apparently the slavs never got the concept of one way plugs in electronics lmao.

The investigation determined as most probable cause for the accident the improper aileron cable installation on both ailerons during maintenance activities and subsequent inadequate independent inspection to the aircraft flight control systems, which resulted in a reversal operation of the aircraft aileron system and led to loss of control in-flight.

They've got the landing footage on FLIR from the FAP. ATC was recorded and released lmao.

Spoiler

 

[Ghostface Killah]

$1000 the ISI had something to do with this.

 

[#58fb58]

Random twitter plane autist implies the pilots were to blame. Link (A)
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"IF THE FLAPS WERE DOWN THEN-"
I think they were all going to die either way.
and whatever flaps you're talking about, no one can disclose if the plane was hit by bullets and/or malfunctioning.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Kiwifarms, you are complicit in this crash. AirIndia will not be tarnished by the likes of you and will come out of this stronger.
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I did not know we were capable of doing that.

 

[Point and Laugh]

I did not know we were capable of doing that.

It’s about time we got the recognition we deserve.

 

[Not A Cat Person]

The flaps weren't deployed:
"We're stalling!" he'd scream.

(Flight checks overlooked,
his curry was cooked
in jet fuel-fed flames.
All Indian names,​

not one Caucasoid.)
He could not redeem.

 

[Gottahavemysips]

14 years of service without a fatal accident is still pretty good, especially for an entirely new design using new composite materials.

I'd be very surprised if Boeing ever even comes close to such a record again, the 737 MAX is proof that the whole company is going to end up filled with substandard Jeet engineers.

 

[proangelwhangs]

I won't be surprised if the sole survivor is simply some guy who picked that ticket off the ground for the valor.

 

[babadook]

As much as I dislike jeets, I can't imagine watching my brother getting shredded by a disintegrating aircraft while I get ejected with nary a wound.

Reminds me of the excerpt of Glamorama where Bret Easton Ellis writes about a bombing and subsequent plane crash.


“Of the three Camden graduates aboard the 747-Amanda Taylor (‘86), Stephanie Meyers ('87) and Susan Goldman ('86)-Amanda is killed first when she’s struck by a beam that crashes through the ceiling of the plane, her son reaching out to her as he’s lifted out of his seat into the air, his arms outstretched as his head mercifully smashes against an overhead bin in the craft, killing him instantly.

[…]

And the smell of rot is everywhere-coming off dismembered feet and arms and legs and torsos propped upright, off piles of intestines and crushed skulls, and the heads that are intact have screams etched across their faces. And the trees that don’t burn will have to be felled to extract airplane pieces and to recover the body parts that ornament them, yellow strings of fatty tissue draped over branches, a macabre tinsel. Stephanie Meyers is still strapped in her seat, which hangs from one of those trees, her eyeballs burned out of their sockets. And since a cargo of party confetti and gold glitter-two tons of it-were being transported to America, millions of tiny dots of purple and green and pink and orange paper cascade over the carnage.”

Glamorama mentioned what the fuck is a healthy family

 

[Azovka]

Always amazing when a single person survives something like that. I wonder how you handle that knowledge.

I'd probably get delusions of grandeur.

Your comment made me think of a recent article (local French news Source) about a survivor, not of a plane crash, but a hiking accident.

Basically, there was a group of hikers attempting the GR20 trail, which is the crossing of the island of Corsica. It’s super popular to the point where you have to book camping spots months in advance, but people often forget that it’s still rough terrain, and that nature is unforgiving.

This group of hikers was descending into the Cirque of Loneliness (a bowl-shaped depression) when an unexpected storm hit them.

Instead of continuing to climb down, they’ve decided to go back up, and shelter there.

Only the violence of the storm made rocks rain down on the path, and people were swept up and over the cliff.

The survivor took more time getting back up than the others, and there was no more space left for him with the group, so he was forced to stay put a bit further away.

He said his friend fell, and he had to let him go in order to survive, since he couldn’t hold on to his weight.

After the storm, he was the only one left standing and uninjured. He found two other guys alive in a crevasse with broken bones. The seven remaining people had died.

After the accident, he got delusions of grandeur, thinking nothing could reach him. He ended up having suicidal tendencies and reckless behaviour, ending up with broken vertebrae in a stupid canyoning accident.

Since then, he’s gotten better.

 

[Apteryx Retardi]

"There were 169 Indian, 53 British, 1 Canadian and 7 Portuguese passengers on board"
So, 223 pajeets and 7 Poortugals.

230 pajeets. The "Poortugals" were pajeets who got their Portuguese (read EU) citizenship due to their great granduncle once taking a street shit in Goa or something.

 

[lostpwgoesbrrrr]

How the Brazilians are capable of making good aircraft in such a shit hole country is beyond me.

Looked up what an Embraer looks like. Basically a small plane. Don't think we have many of these here in the Land Down Under.

Qantas and Jetstar planes (same company) are all Airbus (A320, A330, A380) and Boeing (737, 787) and the online booking tells you what plane you're going to be on.

I think it should be mandatory for planes to have portraits of the people who had a hand in building the plane.

Non-White = nope, even if there's portraits of 61 Whites, 1 Asian, 1 Spic, 1 Jeet and 1 Black who were involved in building the plane, I'm out of there. All-White portraits or I fuck off.

Stepping foot on an Embraer is risky business since it's Brazilian and Brazil has niggers for some reason.

 

[Apteryx Retardi]

Hey I think my local hospital recruits from that medical college. Knock-on effects, Doctor Shortage in the Heartland! Oh no!

Don't worry. I'm certain every admin there has ample stockpiles of all the necessary blanks and stamps at home, and certification of Indian talent will continue unabated.

 

[RodgerDodger]

Fascinating. It seems a portion of the Pajeet Media is not a fan of Air India and is hounding the CEO with embarasing questions about maintenance scandals.

 

[Fapcop]

Managed out to figure out the cause of the disaster.

Spoiler

BECAUSE INDIA

The plane apparently lost all thrust from both engines immediately after takeoff. (Which is something that is supposed to be impossible.)

Despite this, the pilot, Jeet or not, managed to do a great job at keeping it flying and basically made it look like a landing approach. If there had been fields near the glide plane/airport he likely would have managed to make it touch down with little loss of life.

But India is a crowded, overbuilt hellhole, so instead of green fields, the AMD airport is smack in the middle of the city, and he flew into a building.

I hear a lot of talk about possible fuel contamination. The survivor mentioned that all the lights went off, emergency lighting came on, and the engines sounded like they were spinning down.

Dual engine failure isn’t supposed to be possible bare impossibly rare incidents like a double bird strike.

Like @Otterly said, the event is likely the result of a cascading series of failures since India is a shithole.

Someone siphons off some jet fuel to sell it to a street curry vendor. Gate staff take a couple of bribes to look the other way as someone brings on 100 kilo of cow shit, etc, etc.

As for maintenance, it seems that even Air India doesn’t trust Jeet mechanics, since they hired a Turkish company to do maintenance on their wide body jet.

This recently apparently changed since Turkey didn’t go FULL SUPPORT INDIA SAAR! So maybe some engines got improperly maintained in the interim?

 

[Otis Mallebrok]

The flaps weren't deployed-
"We're stalling!" he'd scream.

The checks, overlooked:
His curry was cooked
in jet fuel-fed flames.
All Indian names,

not one Caucasoid.
He could not redeem.

Curry aircraft crashes
Many people killed
Shocking as it sounds
Lots of poo was spilled

 

[Retarded INTP]

I wonder how you handle that knowledge.

Agony, most of the time.

 

[Mad_Dog]

I won't be surprised if the sole survivor is simply some guy who picked that ticket off the ground for the valor.

Valor and a giant settlement from Boeing.

 

[Deer Warts]

... screwy taxi down the runway then turn around to takeoff breaks the flow of the checklists. And increases the chances that something critical gets missed.

This presents itself as such a strong possibility, at least regarding config. Don't know how it would explain what happened with the engines though.

Spoiler

While I am horrified by the loss of life, I can't help anticipating the Mayday episode about it. It will be a wait of years, but worth it for the story of an actual plane crash, not some dips in a Cessna taken out by fumes.

Also if God is good Greg Feith will weigh in ...

 

[Artificial Stupidity]

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/welsh-family-reported-travelling-air-31846906

Typical welsh family in the new UK. I'm sure our welsh correspondent @Made In Wales will appreciate this