Less than 40 seconds.
That’s how long Air India Flight 171 was airborne before it plunged into a densely populated neighbourhood in Ahmedabad in one of India’s most baffling aviation disasters in recent memory.
Investigators now face the grim task of sifting through the wreckage and decoding the cockpit voice and flight data recorders of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner to piece together what went catastrophically wrong in the seconds after take-off. Under international rules set by the UN aviation body ICAO, a preliminary investigation report should be released within 30 days, with the final report ideally completed within 12 months.
Here's a new video of the lone "survivor" of the Air India crash supposedly walking out of an inferno holding his cell phone with barely a scratch.
Am I the only one not buying his story? pic.twitter.com/ulWaEuo6sp
— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) June 17, 2025
