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Air India Aircraft Crashed Into Doctors’ Hostel Near Ahmedabad After Mayday Call
- An Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner on flight AI171 from Ahmedabad to London crashed into the BJ Medical College hostel in Meghani Nagar on 12 June 2025 shortly after takeoff at 1:38pm.
- The crash followed a mayday call from the pilot, indicating the crew was aware of a problem before the aircraft plunged into the hostel mess during the flight's departure from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport.
- The crash killed at least 24 people on the ground, including four medical students and five relatives, and injured about 50 others, with several in serious condition, while parts of the plane were embedded in the building's walls.
- Flight AI171 was carrying 242 individuals, including 169 from India, 53 from the United Kingdom, seven from Portugal, and one from Canada. India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed that the incident in Ahmedabad has left the nation deeply shocked and saddened.
- Authorities declared a hospital emergency and began victim identification with DNA testing centers, while families searched for missing loved ones amid widespread damage and ongoing evacuation at the crash site.
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Air India aircraft crashed into doctors’ hostel near Ahmedabad after mayday call
An Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crashed into a doctors’ hostel near Ahmedabad airport on Thursday after transmitting a mayday distress signal minutes following takeoff, aviation authorities said. Flight AI171, carrying 242 people to London Gatwick, went down in a residential area adjacent to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport. The aircraft departed runway 23
·United States
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Lunch plates abandoned, plane parts embedded in walls after Air India jet hit doctors' hostel
By Sudipto Ganguly and Abhijith Ganapavaram
·Denver, United States
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Rescuers search for missing people, aircraft parts after Air India crash kills more than 240
Rescue workers searched for missing people and aircraft parts on Friday after an Air India plane crashed onto a medical college hostel in the city of Ahmadabad, killing more than 240 people in the world's worst aviation disaster in a decade.
·Johannesburg, South Africa
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