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

 

[God's drunkest driver]

Note in North America you could not be in that seat with less than 1500 hours. (1400 with certain accredited programs. See the Endeavor flaming CRJ900 crash in Canada this past February for how well THAT works out.)

Do not put too much stock in the holy requirements of the maladjusted pontiffs at the FAA. A missing 100hrs of experience imo had nothing at all to do with that CRJ crash, but was a second chances/low quality candidate issue, like the Atlas jet that was basically forced to crash a few years back. The 1500 hour rule is not only fairly recent (it wasn't a thing when I was in flight school), but it was a kneejerk and of debatable utility. Because of it, plenty of pilots waste years gathering experience that is borderline useless when it comes to getting into regional airliners let alone flying widebodies for the majors. I have yet to be convinced that today's 21 year old commercial ticket holder is any better off when he gets to the airlines for having spent 1,000 extra hours flying aerial inspections in a C172, though at least those who do time flying as instructors at a pilot mill like ATP are actually doing something. This 787 pilot's relative "lack" of experience isn't anything to do with this crash, you don't accidentally turn off the conspicuous and isolated fuel cutoffs because you're too green.

Lmao

I hate seeing this crap in comments for every crash. Yeah, we're quick to blame pilots, because a vast majority of crashes are pilot error.

 

[Post Reply]

Wait did these indians basically turn off their engines by cutting off fuel so that's why they literally stopped and started going down?

You cannot make this shit up. I didn't even think something so stupid was the cause, I thought it was some bug in the software of the plane or they forgot to follow a step not that they TURNED OFF THE FUEL SUPPLY TO THE ENGINES fucking lmao

And at the #1 most critical time during the flight that this could have happened. Before they are airborne the takeoff can be aborted. At high altitude they will have time to restart the engines. Right after takeoff is when emergency options are most limited, and Air India didn't have a Captain Suli to crash land them safely in the Ganges.

 

[Jotch]

Suicide feels unlikely to me, but it does make sense.
It's not hard for someone who is experienced in aircraft to understand just how dangerous losing thrust can be when you don't have any altitude.
It's also just subtle enough to ensure that no one gets angry at him before the job is done.

I believe it is within the means and motives of a suicidal pajeet. This will probably be a similar issue to Egypt.

 

[Fatsuit Shinji]

Why expect malice when there's infinite amount of incompetence

Hanlon or someone else also wrote " but never rule out malice" to Hanlon's law.

 

[RodgerDodger]

They just stated that there are no reports of incidents since 2023 and that there are no current recommendations for GE or B787 operators. Never did they say Boeing and GE didn't do nothin and our pilot killed everyone.

There are no reported issues of problems in this aircrafts throttle assembly block (the whole unit including the switches) since it was replaced in 2023.

There are no known issues of uncommanded engine shutdown due to those switches. And those same switches were used in every model Boeing aircraft for the past 20 years. I think the actual advisory about them is for the 767 or 737? So there are thousands of these switches in use all day every day.

And yes they have told the Boeing, GE, NTSB and FAA that they have found nothing mechanically or technically wrong with the plane. And those representatives in the investigation have gone home. The Indian government have essentially told the manufacturers and US partners that it is a law enforcement investigation.

They do know which pilots said what. They just did not put it or the full CVR transcript in this preliminary report. It's overwhelmingly clear that they are now viewing this as a human act. The only question remaining is deliberate act or incompetence.

 

[God's drunkest driver]

Hanlon or someone else also wrote " but never rule out malice" to Hanlon's law.

Hanlon be damned, design of airliners is almost 100 years old as an art and a science. Precluding accidentally shutting all engines down through a bump of the hand or even a mistaking of a switch for something else is a very old concept. These are not light switches on a wall, you don't accidentally bump one off while going for another. Fuel cutoff switches are isolated in their own area behind the throttles, there are no other switches remotely like them within the vicinity. This is by design, as much as is possible everything in the cockpit is unique and recognizable by feel, safety critical things are not clustered haphazardly so that you may accidentally operate one while hamfistedly going for another. The switches do not just toggle like a circuit breaker in your house, they have detents that require positive action like operating the bolt on a rifle and you have to do it once per each switch. It is not plausible to do this accidentally, regardless of bromide, theory or golden rule.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

1,000 extra hours flying aerial inspections in a C172

Especially since many do it with 1,000 hours as a flight instructor, where that may involved only an hour or two actually at the controls. If anything it was sop for general aviation.

Better would be requiring 100 hours in the "oh shit oh fuck" simulator imo

 

[Google.com]

There are no reported issues of problems in this aircrafts throttle assembly block (the whole unit including the switches) since it was replaced in 2023.

There are no known issues of uncommanded engine shutdown due to those switches. And those same switches were used in every model Boeing aircraft for the past 20 years. I think the actual advisory about them is for the 767 or 737? So there are thousands of these switches in use all day every day.

And yes they have told the Boeing, GE, NTSB and FAA that they have found nothing mechanically or technically wrong with the plane. And those representatives in the investigation have gone home. The Indian government have essentially told the manufacturers and US partners that it is a law enforcement investigation.

They do know which pilots said what. They just did not put it or the full CVR transcript in this preliminary report. It's overwhelmingly clear that they are now viewing this as a human act. The only question remaining is deliberate act or incompetence.

I never said it was going to be true. I said India is going the blame boeing. It is going to by a blatant lie but they are going to say it anyways, the same way Egypt Air and Silk Airs pilot suicides had the operators nation just blatantly lying.

 

[Itchy Hemorrhoids]

crash land them safely in the Ganges.

Imagine the smell

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

Imagine the smell

yeah it would definitely making it stinkier, adding jeets to it

 

[TrainWreckWatcher]

In the cockpit voice recording, one of the pilots is heard asking the other why did he cutoff. The other pilot responded that he did not do so.

SAMIR PLEASE - Don't Dont talk to me SAAR SHUT UP! I DID NOT CUT IT OFF SAAR

Lol fucking Jeets can't even admit they fucked up.

 

[The Connected Nose]

Before they are airborne the takeoff can be aborted.

Not necessarily. Depending on runway length, aircraft weight, and temperature, there can be a several second gap between V1 and Vr. V1 is maximum decision speed, meaning anything past that, you're committed to getting airborne because you no longer have enough runway to stop safely. A lot of times V1 and Vr are the same or very close, so it's academic. But in any case, when V1 is called out, you take your hands off the thrust levers to make damn sure you don't inadvertently retard them.

On this flight, V1 was 153kias, achieved at 08:08:33 UTC. Vr (155kias) was reached 2 seconds later, and they were airborne 4 seconds after that. The aircraft reached a maximum speed of 180kias just before the switches were cut off at 08:08:42.

Some theorize it was accidental and he was reaching for the gear switch, but that is nowhere near the fuel cutoff switches.

Hanlon be damned, design of airliners is almost 100 years old as an art and a science. Precluding accidentally shutting all engines down through a bump of the hand or even a mistaking of a switch for something else is a very old concept. These are not light switches on a wall, you don't accidentally bump one off while going for another. Fuel cutoff switches are isolated in their own area behind the throttles, there are no other switches remotely like them within the vicinity. This is by design, as much as is possible everything in the cockpit is unique and recognizable by feel, safety critical things are not clustered haphazardly so that you may accidentally operate one while hamfistedly going for another. The switches do not just toggle like a circuit breaker in your house, they have detents that require positive action like operating the bolt on a rifle and you have to do it once per each switch. It is not plausible to do this accidentally, regardless of bromide, theory or golden rule.

Adding to that, even if one were able to be flipped "by accident", the second one being flipped after a 1 second delay screams intentional or incompetent.

 

[RodgerDodger]

Blancolirio. Juan weighs in on the preliminary report

 

[KiwiFuzz2]

Captain Suli to crash land them safely in the Ganges.

>SAAR, we have hit birds! Both of our engines are out!
>Please SAAR, you must divert to New Delhi!
>SAAR, we cannot divert!
>Please SAAR, you must divert to Lucknow!
>SAAR, we cannot divert!
>Please SAAR, we can get you in at Mumbai! You must divert!
>SAAR, I am diverting into the Ganges!
>You bloody benchod, DO NOT DIVERT THE PLANE, SAAR!
>SAAR, I am in the Ganges!
>SAAR! SAAR! You must get a parade!

 

[Hunter Hearst Helmsley]

If it was deliberate, revenge against a passenger has been a motive in the past.

From the EgyptAir 990 link above:

In interviews conducted for the program, the relief first officer's family members vehemently disputed the suicide and deliberate crash theories, and dismissed them as biased. The program nevertheless concluded that Al-Batouti crashed the plane for personal reasons; he had been severely reprimanded by his supervisor for sexual harassment after allegedly "exposing himself to teenaged girls and propositioning hotel guests",[41] and the supervisor was on board the plane when it was brought down.[5][25]

Also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1771

All 43 passengers and crew aboard the plane died, five of whom, including the two pilots, were presumably shot dead before the plane crashed. The perpetrator, David Burke, was a disgruntled former employee of USAir, the parent company of Pacific Southwest Airlines.[5] The crash was the second-worst mass murder in Californian history, after the similar crash of Pacific Air Lines Flight 773 in 1964. It was the second fatal crash of PSA, after Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182. The motive for the hijacking and resulting mass murder-suicide was anger towards Burke’s boss, Ray Thompson, who had refused to reinstate Burke after he had been fired for theft. Thompson was on Flight 1771 and was the first victim.[6]

So here's my theory: The pilot who cut the fuel wanted revenge on one of the passengers. And ironically it will turn out to be the guy who survived.

 

[Fapcop]

Wait did these indians basically turn off their engines by cutting off fuel so that's why they literally stopped and started going down?

You cannot make this shit up. I didn't even think something so stupid was the cause, I thought it was some bug in the software of the plane or they forgot to follow a step not that they TURNED OFF THE FUEL SUPPLY TO THE ENGINES fucking lmao

It’s a liiiitle early to say that.

The investigation is focused on dual engine failure and the switches, but it’s possible that the switches were pressed AFTER they lost power: So in an attempt to restart them.

We will see.

I do understand that the investigation has been a bit of a cluster fuck so far, with FAA threatening with pulling support at one point. (Something about the jeets wanting to move the boxes out of Delhi and into some other facility.)

 

[Otis Mallebrok]

The investigation is focused on dual engine failure and the switches, but it’s possible that the switches were pressed AFTER they lost power: So in an attempt to restart them.

According to the interim report the fuel switches was set to OFF right after take off, and then reengaged shortly before the crash.

From the interim report

The aircraft achieved the maximum recorded airspeed of 180 Knots IAS at about 08:08:42
UTC and immediately thereafter, the Engine 1 and Engine 2 fuel cutoff switches transitioned
from RUN to CUTOFF position one after another with a time gap of 01 sec. The Engine N1
and N2 began to decrease from their take-off values as the fuel supply to the engines was cut
off.
In the cockpit voice recording, one of the pilots is heard asking the other why did he cutoff.
The other pilot responded that he did not do so.

 

[Cybertonia]

From the interim report

Yeah I know it's been talked to death already in this thread - But best-and-brightest brahmans in the cockpit, and their cockpit CRM basically is "NO U!"

 

[RodgerDodger]

This might be interesting if true. Apparently the Air India pilots all knew that the Captain had some sort of medical issue going on. That had had him take a medical leave.

I'm wondering if the Captain suffered a bout of confusion and threw the switches without realizing he had done it. The FO was apparently pilot flying and would have had both hands on the yoke at that moment, as he rotated the plane.

 

[Dragged Into Sunlight]

This might be interesting if true. Apparently the Air India pilots all knew that the Captain had some sort of medical issue going on. That had had him take a medical leave.

I'm wondering if the Captain suffered a bout of confusion and threw the switches without realizing he had done it. The FO was apparently pilot flying and would have had both hands on the yoke at that moment, as he rotated the plane.

Well there is your motive. Prestigious captain about to be forcibly medically retired, goes down with the ship instead.