“Mass Casualty Event”

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

A pilot who regularly captained the same Air India Boeing 787 that crashed in Ahmedabad on Thursday, killing all but one of the 242 people on board, has theorized what could have caused the fatal incident.

Speaking to the Indian news service NDTV, Captain Rakesh Rai said that his analysis of the video footage of the plane during takeoff suggests something went wrong as the plane climbed to an altitude of 400 to 500 feet.

“Here, what you see is the undercarriage has not been retracted at all,” Rai said. “That raises a lot of questions.”

This is interesting and based on the original clearer footage.

Why the RAT Changes Everything – Air India 171 Update

Captain Sumeet Sabharwal and his first officer were in charge of an aircraft that was refusing to climb after their Boeing 787 took off at Ahmedabad airport in India.

Video of the take-off showed the airliner halting its climb and beginning to sink seconds after pulling away from runway 23. The pilots made a mayday call to controllers, alerting them to a distress situation, about 60 seconds after starting their take-off roll.

Pilots trying to understand the events that led the 787-8 series airliner to lose lift and struggle to stay airborne, before slamming into a building, considered a loss of engine thrust as a possible cause. They focused, however, more on an anomaly: the abnormal configuration of the wing flaps and landing gear. Some veteran pilots speculated that the take-off flaps had been retracted by mistake.

An Air India flight bound for London Gatwick, carrying 53 British nationals, has crashed in India’s western city of Ahmedabad.

The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner came down shortly after take-off into a residential area, leading to a massive explosion.

A partially intact plane was seen sticking out from a building, with thick black smoke rising over the city as people were pulled from the wreckage and taken away in ambulances.

BREAKING:

A London-bound Air India Flight 171 has crashed into a residential area minutes after taking off from Ahmedabad, India.

The Boeing 787-8 was carrying 242 passengers and crew pic.twitter.com/3BEOCmXLXd

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) June 12, 2025

An IT professional and former Royal Marine has been charged after a car was driven into a crowd of people celebrating Liverpool’s Premier League title win.

Father of three Paul Doyle, 53, previously described by police as a white British man from West Derby in Liverpool, was arrested at the scene on Monday.

A total of 79 people, including four children, were injured in the incident on Water Street, near the parade route, just after 6pm.

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — A crowd was fired upon while overrunning a new aid-distribution site in the Gaza Strip set up by an Israeli and U.S.-backed foundation, killing at least one Palestinian and wounding 48 others, Gaza’s Health Ministry said Wednesday.

Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country killed senior Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar, apparently confirming his death in a recent airstrike in Gaza. Speaking before parliament, Netanyahu included Sinwar in a list of Hamas leaders killed in Israeli strikes. He was the brother of Yahya Sinwar, one of the masterminds of the militant group’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack, who was killed by Israeli forces last year.

BREAKING: Hamas militias opened fire on thousands of people in Gaza City after they gathered in front of a warehouse to get flour—killing at least five.

This happened after civilians saw Hamas members looting the flour and went to confront them. pic.twitter.com/Qoa309Hg6x

— Ihab Hassan (@IhabHassane) May 28, 2025

h/t Mauser

The man arrested on suspicion of mowing down dozens of people with a car during the Liverpool FC victory parade is a middle class father-of-three who lives in a detached suburban home.

According to social media, the 53-year-old business owner has competed in triathlons, climbed Kilimanjaro, and enjoyed holidays to exotic locations.

The man, who has not been named, has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, dangerous driving offences, and driving while unfit through drugs.

A 53-year-old man has been arrested after a car ploughed into a crowd of Liverpool supporters during their Premier League trophy parade last night. Hundreds of thousands were out on the streets to celebrate when the car collided with pedestrians on Water Street, in the heart of Liverpool city centre, shortly after 6 p.m. Twenty-seven were taken to hospital, two of them with serious injuries, while 20 were treated on the scene. Four of the injured were children. Mercifully – miraculously – no one seems to have died.

LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — British police were holding a 53-year-old man on Tuesday over a collision that turned a joyous soccer celebration in Liverpool to tragedy and sent more than two dozen people to hospitals, four of them in very serious condition.

Merseyside Police said they are not treating the incident as terrorism and are not looking for other suspects. The force has not identified the arrested driver. Police in Britain usually do not name suspects until they are charged.

Update – Liverpool parade update: Driver followed ambulance through roadblock as number of injuries increased to over 60

“Merseyside Police Assistant Chief Constable Jenny Sims told a press conference: “It is believed the driver of the Ford Galaxy car involved in this incident was able to follow an ambulance onto Water Street after the road block was temporarily lifted so that the ambulance crew could attend to a member of the public who was having a suspected heart attack.”

Breaking: Merseyside Police confirm the car that struck crowds in Liverpool tailed an ambulance after a roadblock was briefly lifted for paramedics treating a suspected heart attack. Eleven remain in hospital, all recovering well. pic.twitter.com/DwefOQoM8R

— GB News (@GBNEWS) May 27, 2025

Storm systems sweeping across the midwestern US have left more than 25 dead in Missouri and Kentucky.

Kentucky’s governor, Andy Beshear, said at a briefing in London, Kentucky, that “at least 18” of the deaths were in his state. At least nine of those were reported after a tornado sparked what authorities called a mass casualty event in south-eastern Kentucky.

The storms were part of a weather system on Friday that killed seven people in Missouri and spawned more than two dozen tornadoes in Missouri, Kentucky, Illinois and Indiana, left several hundred thousand customers without power in the Great Lakes region and brought a punishing heatwave to Texas.

Only 20 mins away …. The town next to me here in Kentucky got leveled by a tornado last night ️

If you wouldn’t mind taking a few seconds…. These people could use a prayer or two pic.twitter.com/6nIMwfNlNK

— Distinguished Hillbilly ™️ (@Feral_Socrates) May 17, 2025

Terrifying tornado. Prayers for Kentucky. pic.twitter.com/DtgLJg8tJg

— PNW Conservative (@UnderWashington) May 17, 2025

The man charged with eight counts of murder after 11 people were killed and several more injured at an outdoor Filipino community festival last Saturday has been sent for a psychiatric assessment.

Adam Kai-Ji Lo, 30, appeared by video in a courtroom at Vancouver provincial court on Friday afternoon, on a split screen with his lawyer, Mark Swartz, who also appeared via video from a different location.

Lo was wearing a red T-shirt and matching red bottoms and sat on a light blue bench in a brightly lit room at the jail where he is being held in.

A joyful Filipino street festival ended in carnage Saturday night after a man driving an SUV rammed into a crowd, killing 11 people and injuring at least 20 more. The man arrested and charged with eight counts of murder has a history of mental illness. While many factors contributed to this avoidable tragedy, perhaps the greatest of them was Canada’s failure to embrace involuntary treatment and institutionalization.

A joyful Filipino street festival ended in carnage Saturday night after a man driving an SUV rammed into a crowd, killing 11 people and injuring at least 20 more. The man arrested and charged with eight counts of murder has a history of mental illness. While many factors contributed to this avoidable tragedy, perhaps the greatest of them was Canada’s failure to embrace involuntary treatment and institutionalization.