Survivor of Air India crash says how he escaped plane
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The teenager who filmed the Air India crash has said he would not ‘sit on a plane’ again after witnessing the disaster. Aryan Ansari, 17, was standing on a terrace of a three-storey building to film the Boeing 787 on his phone as it left Ahmedabad airport on Thursday afternoon, in order to show his friends ‘how planes fly.’
Based on images of the Air India crash that killed over 200 people in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad on Thursday, experts predicted a difficult recovery and investigation operation exacerbated by the risks of unstable structures and gas leaks.
An Air India pilot's final decision may have prevented greater tragedy in a deadly crash that killed 270, leaving one survivor.
Search and recovery teams continued scouring the site of one of India's worst aviation disasters for a third day after the Air India flight fell from the sky and killed at least 270 people in Gujarat state,
It could take months to fully understand what went wrong in the crash, the first involving a Dreamliner. Officials from India continued the investigation Friday.
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Boeing 787 Dreamliner — with 242 people on board crashed into a medical college complex in the Meghaninagar area moments after taking off from the airport on Thursday afternoon.
PK Mishra chaired a high-level review meeting at the Circuit House, where he held discussions with senior officials from the Central and state governments, the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB),
High-level committee to investigate Ahmedabad plane crash, focusing on prevention procedures, with separate technical investigation by AAIB.