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

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.

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

Air India Flight 171 was “involved in a tragic accident,” the airline’s chairman said. The plane was due to fly from Ahmedabad to London’s Gatwick Airport.

Indian investigators have recovered the digital flight data recorder or the black box of the Air India flight that crashed a day earlier.

The London-bound Air India Dreamliner, carrying 242 passengers and 12 crew members, crashed moments after takeoff, leaving the country in mourning.

A 28-year-old student who was visiting western India says she missed her Air India flight​ back to London. That flight was AI171​, which crashed shortly after takeoff.

On June 12, as news emerged that an Air India flight bound for London crashed shortly after takeoff in Ahmedabad, India, a video ( archived) circulated online claiming to authentically show the final moments before the crash from inside the cabin.

Loychusak, who is now 47, recently took to Facebook to share his shock after knowing that the only survivor of the recent crash in Ahmedabad was also seated in 11A. “The lone survivor of the plane crash in India was sitting in the same seat number as me, 11A. Goosebumps,” he wrote.