The horrific crash of Air India Flight AI171 on Thursday, June 12, 2025, has left the nation in profound grief, with the confirmed death toll now sta

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN, SHONAL GANGULY and PIYUSH NAGPAL AHMEDABAD, India (AP) — Authorities have started handing over remains of the victims of one of India’s worst aviation disasters after

More than 72 hours after India’s deadliest aviation tragedy in recent memory, Rohit Patel — a father mourning the loss of his two children — stood trembling before a room of Indian health and investigative officials in Ahmedabad and demanded answers.

Air India flight AI171, a Boeing 787-8 carrying 242 people, crashed after taking off from Ahmedabad on its way to London.

The 17-year-old had arrived in the area 'on June 12 to buy textbooks', and had recorded the crash on his mobile phone

Seconds after the distress call, ATC responded but the plane had crashed by then, killing 241 people on board.

Air India plane crash investigators find the first of the "black boxes" from the Boeing 787-8 that slammed into buildings, killing all but one of the 242 people on board.

Boeing and GE, which provided the engines for the crashed Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, also sent teams to inspect the crash site near Ahmedabad International Airport

It seemed impossible, but shortly after news broke that an Air India flight had crashed in the city of Ahmedabad, video started circulating on social media showing a man walking from the scene in a bloodstained shirt.