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.

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[Otterly]

Planes are terrifying. All those switches, and a good number of them are the ‘wings stay on/wings fall off’ ones.

Saar, do not redeem the wings fall of switch

 

[Yet Another Wanker]

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.

1500 hour rule was Congress being shit heads think about it. At the time ICAO was talking about lowering the minimum hours and with good reason Part 135 operations suck ass everyone knows this. There's so many cowboy operations out there that 1,000 extra hours in those shit places is only teaching bad habits. 1,000 hours at the major airline surrounded new pilots with experience and the best equipment would train better pilots.

 

[not william stenchever]

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.

FO: "Captain Ranjeesh, how would you feel if you forgot to redeem da cow poo poo this morning SAAR?"
Captain Ranjeesh looks up after having turned the fuel knobs to shut-off "But I did not redeem da cow poo poo this morning."

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

I think it’s time we address the elephant in the room: racism in airplane engineering design. It was white supremacy that made those fuel switches so tempting to toggle. It was systemic discrimination that allowed Western-centric philosophies to colonize aeronautical spaces.

 

[Blonrad Blurze]

If planes aren't racist why do brown people die when a plane crashes?

 

[RodgerDodger]

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

From the way its been said. I'm not sure. Both Pilots seemed to have plenty to live for. The Captain has been caring for his sick elderly mother, supposedly. And the FO was getting married in a few weeks.

Above and beyond the possibility of the Captain on medical leave for mental health, if it was for a major medical issue, say he had a round of chemo? He might have brief periods of confusion as a consequence. If you've ever had a relative in the earliest stages of cognitive decline, they can do something, in fro t of you, then deny having done it seconds later. The Captain may have been getting loopy from blood sugars, bad blood chemistry any number of things that cause a sort of "Brain Fog". It's horrifying to think of. In many ways its an even more horrifying scenario than deliberate suicide.

Tarom 371 jumps to mind. That was the one where the Captain went into Cardiac Arrest right as the plane took off. The poor FO could get everything entangled in time and they crashed.

Heck Air India just had a troubling incident back on April 9, 2025. The plane had just landed at Delhi. Passengers disembarked. The Captain went into the dispatch office to do his paperwork and dropped dead of a massive heart attack.

 

[Dragged Into Sunlight]

From the way its been said. I'm not sure. Both Pilots seemed to have plenty to live for. The Captain has been caring for his sick elderly mother, supposedly. And the FO was getting married in a few weeks.

Above and beyond the possibility of the Captain on medical leave for mental health, if it was for a major medical issue, say he had a round of chemo? He might have brief periods of confusion as a consequence. If you've ever had a relative in the earliest stages of cognitive decline, they can do something, in fro t of you, then deny having done it seconds later. The Captain may have been getting loopy from blood sugars, bad blood chemistry any number of things that cause a sort of "Brain Fog". It's horrifying to think of. In many ways its an even more horrifying scenario than deliberate suicide.

Tarom 371 jumps to mind. That was the one where the Captain went into Cardiac Arrest right as the plane took off. The poor FO could get everything entangled in time and they crashed.

Heck Air India just had a troubling incident back on April 9, 2025. The plane had just landed at Delhi. Passengers disembarked. The Captain went into the dispatch office to do his paperwork and dropped dead of a massive heart attack.

Turning off the fuel to the engines at rotation is like turning your ignition off while navigating an S turn at 60 in your car. Even if you were having some sort of episode, I can't imagine doing that. Particularly with hose switches being the kind you have to pull up then engage. Which was done twice. A deliberate act is the only logical explanation, especially since the pilot wasn't randomly switching anything else off. Just the only two switches which would put the flight into a state that was completely unrecoverable.

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

And the FO was getting married in a few weeks.

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[TowinKarz]

From the way its been said. I'm not sure. Both Pilots seemed to have plenty to live for. The Captain has been caring for his sick elderly mother, supposedly. And the FO was getting married in a few weeks.

Above and beyond the possibility of the Captain on medical leave for mental health, if it was for a major medical issue, say he had a round of chemo? He might have brief periods of confusion as a consequence. If you've ever had a relative in the earliest stages of cognitive decline, they can do something, in fro t of you, then deny having done it seconds later. The Captain may have been getting loopy from blood sugars, bad blood chemistry any number of things that cause a sort of "Brain Fog". It's horrifying to think of. In many ways its an even more horrifying scenario than deliberate suicide.

Tarom 371 jumps to mind. That was the one where the Captain went into Cardiac Arrest right as the plane took off. The poor FO could get everything entangled in time and they crashed.

Heck Air India just had a troubling incident back on April 9, 2025. The plane had just landed at Delhi. Passengers disembarked. The Captain went into the dispatch office to do his paperwork and dropped dead of a massive heart attack.

BEA 548 is another "unsolved" crash where the cause is known (crew pulled off the flaps too soon after departure) but WHY they did it isn't (No CVR at the time) and was hypothesized to be at least partially from the pilot suffering from severe cardiac issues (found at autopsy) that either clouded his judgement or killed him at the throttles leaving no time for the rest of the crew to react to what might have been literally a dead man's hand on the flap lever.

As I get older myself, I find there are more and more times where I stare at a red traffic light for an extra partial second before hitting the brakes when my reaction time as a new driver was darn near perfect. And I muse to myself every time it happens - "You know those train / plane crashes where they can't figure out why the driver/pilot blew through a warning that was obvious? Sometimes, the human brain just doesn't compute it in time, and I just saw it happen"

If I'd blasted into that intersection and died in the crash? I'd have left behind EXACTLY what we have now, a pile of wreckage and a dead driver who, to anyone who asked, was healthy and not suicidal, who just plain didn't stop for a red...... And everyone wondering "why'd he do this?" when the actual answer is "I didn't do it, I just failed to react due to "brain fart" ".

See Also: The Moorgate Tube Crash - driver who was not found to be suffering any health issues nor suicidal ideation plowed right into the end of the line wall for no apparent reason, that I chalk up to an untimely bout of that "waking sleep" where you just zone out for a second in a way that has no obvious trigger and leaves no obvious evidence.

Again, something I'm becoming more prone to as I age. Used to be? I could mentally go over my grocery list while driving to the store. These days? I'll casually wonder if I need just bread, or bread AND buns... and then catch myself drifting off the road.... just can't multitask like I used to.

In an information saturated environment, like a cockpit? I can see just a momentary lapse at the wrong moment for something completely innocuous, going very bad, so bad in fact? It looks like malice on the outside.

I think? Personally? That these moments of personal phantasm of the conscious cause a lot more accidents than we'd be comfortable with if we knew it.

 

[DavidS877]

Saar, do not redeem the wings fall of switch

This is the most dangerous switch:

 

[Otterly]

if it was for a major medical issue, say he had a round of chemo?

I thought pilots has regular Medicals and were grounded for fairly minor things? I can’t see a pilot going through chemo being able to fly. Maybe chemo in a technical sense like having some cream burning off a skin lesion, but real ‘internal’ chemo is brutal and I’d be surprised if they’d be cleared to fly.
Something like a TIA? Or an absence seizure? Yeah for sure.

"brain fart".

Yeah. I’m only middle aged but my reactions used to be like a mongoose and now they’re decidedly average.
I suppose there’s a few options:
1. You reach down and flick the fuel off switch rather than the switch you intended to, and have no recollection of doing so - in your mind you made rhe right movement. Basically like using the wrong word, (like when you run down all the kids names and eventually find the right one) but with an action.
2. Deliberate action,
I am still horrified that there’s a switch that does this right where I’d knock it but that’s why I’m a desk jockey and not in charge of anything critical

 

[RodgerDodger]

I am still horrified that there’s a switch that does this right where I’d knock it but that’s why I’m a desk jockey and not in charge of anything critical

You can’t really knock these. They need to be within arms reach of both pilots. These are steel switches with a quite firm spring locking mechanism. You really need 3 fingers to pull it out and move it. They use similar switches for hundreds of industrial applications where you do not want a switch to be accidentally thrown.

 

[Otterly]

You can’t really knock these. They need to be within arms reach of both pilots. These are steel switches with a quite firm spring locking mechanism. You really need 3 fingers to pull it out and move it. They use similar switches for hundreds of industrial applications where you do not want a switch to be accidentally thrown.

What else is on that bit of panel? Is there something there that’s used during takeoff and if so is it moving the same way? I suppose an analogy would be flicking the indicators instead of the wipers in a car. It’s the same movement just opposite side of the wheel. Is there another switch on that bit of panel that you also have to pull/lift and move?

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

What else is on that bit of panel? Is there something there that’s used during takeoff and if so is it moving the same way? I suppose an analogy would be flicking the indicators instead of the wipers in a car. It’s the same movement just opposite side of the wheel. Is there another switch on that bit of panel that you also have to pull/lift and move?

Looks like they are pretty isolated to me

 

[Peaches the Wonder Cat]

Switches in action. Doesn't look like you can accidentally flip them.

 

[Google.com]

Looks like they are pretty isolated to me
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They are also the only switch of that type and particular size and shape in the cockpit.

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Also, I am thinking it probably wasn't suicide, maybe some health thing confusion. Since if it was suicide you think he would discharge the fire extinguisher handles instead, that would be just as easy and a lot more damaging.

 

[DavidS877]

What else is on that bit of panel? Is there something there that’s used during takeoff and if so is it moving the same way? I suppose an analogy would be flicking the indicators instead of the wipers in a car. It’s the same movement just opposite side of the wheel. Is there another switch on that bit of panel that you also have to pull/lift and move?

Planes are very good at having all the controls shaped differently and activated differently. Here's where they are:

See red rectangle. Notice nothing else looks like them, nothing similar near by. They need to be both easy to reach and hard to accidentally activate.
Here's a video of moving them.

 

[Otterly]

Ok thanks - that’s exactly what I was wondering but there’s nothing near them you could do a movement and mix them up with.

 

[TowinKarz]

They are also the only switch of that type and particular size and shape in the cockpit.

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Also, I am thinking it probably wasn't suicide, maybe some health thing confusion. Since if it was suicide you think he would discharge the fire extinguisher handles instead, that would be just as easy and a lot more damaging.

They also have lock-overrides, for that reason.

They have to be "right there" so you aren't looking for them, but not able to be accidentally engaged.

To use them, you have to push a safety lock-out button, and then pull the handle out.

You have to MEAN it for them to go off.

(In fact? That appears to be them right there below the fuel switches, the big blocky things on that flat portion of panel. )

 

[The Connected Nose]

(In fact? That appears to be them right there below the fuel switches, the big blocky things on that flat portion of panel. )

Those are the engine fire suppression controls. If there's a fire, the corresponding handle will light up. Pull the switch up then turn it either left or right (each engine has 2 fire bottles you can discharge) and the system will close the fuel valves to the engine and then discharge one of the two bottles. If the fire still isn't out, you use the second one. IIRC it will also light up the fuel control switch for the affected engine so you don't accidentally cut off the working engine.