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An Air India flight to London Gatwick has crashed in Ahmedabad in western India shortly after take-off, with 242 folks on board, based on the nation’s aviation regulator.
Police in Gujarat state instructed the Monetary Instances that the aircraft crashed “inside 10 minutes” of taking off from the airport in Ahmedabad.
The Indian aviation regulator stated the plane made a mayday name to air visitors management “however thereafter no response was given by the plane to the calls made by ATC”.
It stated that there have been 242 on board, together with two pilots and 10 cabin crew, including that the plane fell outdoors the airport perimeter instantly after departure and that heavy black smoke was then seen from the accident web site.
The aircraft was a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner that was greater than 10 years previous, based on Flightradar24.
“Flight AI171, working Ahmedabad-London Gatwick, was concerned in an incident at the moment, 12 June 2025. At this second, we’re ascertaining the small print,” Air India posted on X.
The airport was subsequently closed.
Tata, which took over the airline from state management in 2022, posted on X a remark from Air India’s chair N Chandrasekaran: “With profound sorrow I verify that Air India Flight 171 working Ahmedabad London Gatwick was concerned in a tragic accident at the moment.”
Tata promised to modernise the provider, and, in 2023, Air India agreed a take care of Boeing and Airbus to purchase 470 new plane, one of many largest orders in aviation historical past.
Campbell Wilson, the airline’s chief govt, instructed the FT in 2023 that the modernisation plan was “the most important aviation turnaround . . . that I’m ever conscious of”.
Gatwick airport stated: “We are able to verify that flight AI171 that crashed on departure from Ahmedabad Airport at the moment was because of land at London Gatwick at 18:25.”