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

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

So whether or not it was deliberate, does this incident require Boeing to update their planes in some way to lock out pilots flipping off the fuel switches during takeoff or something? Or is that just infeasible because of the higher likelihood of it needing to happen in case of an engine fire over some suicidal/retarded person pulling this shit?

 

[guhguhguhguhguhguh]

Complete speculation. What if one of them triggered the switches, then said out loud for the CVR, "why'd you do that?" Then immediately switched them back so that he could try to look like a hero?
After watching Captain Steeeve's last video, he really praised whichever pilot noticed and switched the switches back immediately, emphasizing the quick thinking.
Imagine if you're a pilot who isn't very bright, and you want to save the day from a catastrophic problem because you live in a haze of being raised as a main character, and are entirely over exposed to Bollywood. You want to be a hero. You can't fake a real catastrophic problem well, you're just smart enough to know you can't, but you can make something up about the other pilot causing a catastrophic situation, perfect for you to save the day.
Obviously, this backfired.

 

[Yum Yum]

Complete speculation. What if one of them triggered the switches, then said out loud for the CVR, "why'd you do that?" Then immediately switched them back so that he could try to look like a hero?

I dont think so, cutting the fuel that low to the ground = everyone dead. There was no chance of recovering and firing the engines back up in time imo.

 

[Flaming Dumpster]

perfect for you to save the day.

Consider if this happened at 5000 ft and they were able to recover. Now there's an investigation into why the fuel control switches had apparently moved of their own volition as neither pilot will admit to having done it. They mechanically test the switches and find no defects, and they can see from the flight data recorder that someone moved them.

It ultimately ends up a black mark on your record that makes it difficult to get hired elsewhere. Imagine if Captain Scully flamed his engines out deliberately so he could show his fully sick water landing skills.

If it was a bout of confusion that caused a pilot to do this, then it would've been the captain. Since he was pilot monitoring so his right hand was on the throttles while they were going down the runway. The plane will automatically call out V1 and he's meant to take his hands off at that moment as they're now too fast to reject a takeoff.

Looking at the report, from V1 to the cutoff switches was a 9 second gap. So he should not have had his hands on the throttles when that happened. However consider this video of these two ladies taking off in a Dreamliner from JFK airport. (This is the one that blancolirio showed in his video then for some reason never bothered linking to)

At 3:56 the computer calls out V1
At 4:05 the pilot flying calls out positive rate which is the signal for the pilot monitoring to raise the landing gear

Now there's absolutely no way anyone in their right mind could ever mistake the landing gear lever for the fuel control switches. Its shape, location, size and feel is completely different, even the direction the control has to move is opposite from what happened here. It'd require an absolutely astonishingly fucked up medical event that goes far beyond any brain fart, and yet given the landing gear was never raised, it seems something happened right around when pilot monitoring would've called positive rate.

I hate Indians and have zero faith in their abilities, but I still find it hard to believe they fucked up this bad without it being deliberate.

 

[Not A Cat Person]

It's looking more and more like it was deliberate.

I bet the one that remarked 'why did you shut off the fuel' was the one who deliberately did it, knowing that the recorder would pick it up.

 

[Oxyjen]

I thought pilots has regular Medicals and were grounded for fairly minor things?

It’s India though. Did you watch that interview posted above, with the somewhat elderly Indian pilot? He stated that their pilots “don’t have lives” due to the workload, and that there’s no sort of psychiatric evaluation or record keeping.

Mental confusion due to stress, lack of sleep and/or health issue is a definite contender.

 

[Dragged Into Sunlight]

So whether or not it was deliberate, does this incident require Boeing to update their planes in some way to lock out pilots flipping off the fuel switches during takeoff or something? Or is that just infeasible because of the higher likelihood of it needing to happen in case of an engine fire over some suicidal/retarded person pulling this shit?

Or you can accept that sometimes people do bad things and doing kneejerk reactions to try to remove any possibility of someone acting horribly is impossible. All the needs over at /r/aviation are crowing about how its ridiculous we dont have cameras in cockpits as if that would have done a damn thing.

 

[guhguhguhguhguhguh]

I dont think so, cutting the fuel that low to the ground = everyone dead. There was no chance of recovering and firing the engines back up in time imo.

We are thinking this through and understand this was waaaaay too low to try to pull this bullshit, but did he?

Consider if this happened at 5000 ft and they were able to recover. Now there's an investigation into why the fuel control switches had apparently moved of their own volition as neither pilot will admit to having done it. They mechanically test the switches and find no defects, and they can see from the flight data recorder that someone moved them.

It ultimately ends up a black mark on your record that makes it difficult to get hired elsewhere. Imagine if Captain Scully flamed his engines out deliberately so he could show his fully sick water landing skills.

But that's not how it works in his Bollywood movies though, and of course he has to do it close to the ground, that way he's really saving the day.
Also, I'm talking about him actively framing the other pilot in a psychopathic bid for Sully levels of clout. I know they have a nasty habit of screwing each other over.
I'm sure it'll come out that one had a history of poor mental health, though. On top of the overall general malaise of being Indian.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

All the needs over at /r/aviation are crowing about how its ridiculous we dont have cameras in cockpits as if that would have done a damn thing.

It would have given us hilarious leaked videos of pajeets redeeming, so I begrudgingly have to admit reddit is right.

 

[Fapcop]

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.

The thing is… If it was some kind of suicide, or he wanted to kill someone aboard the plane there are much better and less complicated methods. Just dive the plane into an ocean while the other pilot is taking a shit or something.

Very strange story!

 

[Mushroom King]

At one point, the NTSB threatened to withdraw American resources from the investigation. In the end, the American investigators remained in the country to assist. They have since returned home.


EDIT: Preliminary report is out and attached.

Thank you for posting this, it's sat in my brain since it happened. I'm not surprised, Indians don't seem to have any kind of baked in survival instincts, I would never, under any circumstances, let brown hands handle my life. Not a tuk-tuk, not a human powered cart and certainly not a fucking airplane. I'm shocked this doesn't happen every day, if you wanna know the truth about it.™ Remember that this airplane was filled with Indians the media said were "British." I will not be gas lit into giving a shit about 200 Indians, 300 Indians, 400 Indians. It's irrelevant, there could be 10 airplanes a day of "British" people and you wouldn't get a single human soul. The most Indian thing of all was the co-pilot switching off the fuel, the Captain addressing it and then the co-pilot sneakily turning one engine back on to reduce his culpability towards his lie.

"I did not turn the fuel off, saar!" Turns fuel back on.

This could happen fifty times a day and it wouldn't be a factor, there's 2 billion of them.

The biggest victim in this entire thing is the legacy of the 787, an otherwise reliable workhouse driven into the dirt by two men I wouldn't trade a donkey for.

 

[RodgerDodger]

Complete speculation. What if one of them triggered the switches, then said out loud for the CVR, "why'd you do that?" Then immediately switched them back so that he could try to look like a hero?
After watching Captain Steeeve's last video, he really praised whichever pilot noticed and switched the switches back immediately, emphasizing the quick thinking.
Imagine if you're a pilot who isn't very bright, and you want to save the day from a catastrophic problem because you live in a haze of being raised as a main character, and are entirely over exposed to Bollywood. You want to be a hero. You can't fake a real catastrophic problem well, you're just smart enough to know you can't, but you can make something up about the other pilot causing a catastrophic situation, perfect for you to save the day.
Obviously, this backfired.

The "He who Smelt it, Dealt it" Doctrine may apply in this case.

We don't know which pilot said what. But the investigators certainly do.

 

[Falcos_Commisar]

It's looking more and more like it was deliberate.

I bet the one that remarked 'why did you shut off the fuel' was the one who deliberately did it, knowing that the recorder would pick it up.

Yep

Murder by pilot.

 

[RodgerDodger]

One more detail is rumored to have leaked out. The Captain was retiring to care for his ill Parent. He only had 3 more flights left (including this one). He had also been on a recent extended Medical Leave.

Safe assumption he had a lot going on in his head.

Edit;also its Sunday and the legion of Aussie "Murder Most Foultubers" have kicked into overdrive on this one. Especially since the murderous Beef Wellington lady is convicted. I mean this one is almost as good as MH370 and the Titan Sub. Plus they've got explosion footage to go along with the murder!

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

That reminds me we completely stopped talking about the South Korea tragedy and we saw that shit plow into oblivion.

 

[Hunter Hearst Helmsley]

One more detail is rumored to have leaked out. The Captain was retiring to care for his ill Parent. He only had 3 more flights left (including this one). He had also been on a recent extended Medical Leave.

Safe assumption he had a lot going on in his head.

Edit;also its Sunday and the legion of Aussie "Murder Most Foultubers" have kicked into overdrive on this one. Especially since the murderous Beef Wellington lady is convicted. I mean this one is almost as good as MH370 and the Titan Sub. Plus they've got explosion footage to go along with the murder!

Maybe some kind of life insurance play?

 

[RodgerDodger]

Maybe some kind of life insurance play?

O honestly don't think it was that planned out or deliberate. Unless they find something interesting in his personal effects, I'm leaning more to this was an Action in the Moment. Be it from confusion, despair, or a psychotic break. He just reached out and flipped the switches.

 

[Peaches the Wonder Cat]

Maybe some kind of life insurance play?

Or he didn't want to take care of his parents, or the whole issue of having to retire to take care of them drove him to a breaking point.

Since the flight was so short, I wonder if it was the FO who piloted the plane into a (less dense) area.

 

[Oxyjen]

The "He who Smelt it, Dealt it" Doctrine may apply in this case.

We don't know which pilot said what. But the investigators certainly do

It is a bit fishy. If your car dies when you’re merging onto the highway, do you have the presence of mind to look down at the ignition key just in case it’s suddenly off for some reason?

A 787 is a million times more complicated and there’s a dozen more things it “could be” and he just notices those switches are off?

X

 

[Almighty Space Duck]

A 787 is a million times more complicated and there’s a dozen more things it “could be” and he just notices those switches are off?

I doubt that the pilot/copilot would just notice that the switches were off. But isn’t there a checklist/procedure that is either laminated or comes from one of the little computers for just about everything? I’d be surprised if there wasn’t a checklist for taking a piss.