Survey reveals Mumbai, seven other Indian airports are hotbeds for casualties in a crash
Soumya Arya
TNN
Jul 9, 2025, 13:21 IST IST
Eight Indian airports are among the world's top 50 most enclosed by urban sprawls. Mumbai tops the list, while Ahmedabad — which saw one of India's worst aviation disasters last month — ranks 12th
New Laxminagar in Ahmedabad's Meghaninagar area is a colony for the urban poor, with 600 flats packed into 11 blocks. The terrace of Block F offers a chilling perspective on how close its 2,000-odd residents were from where AI's flight 171 exploded into a fireball moments after take-off on June 12: just 250 metres. Also dangerously close is the Civil Hospital campus and a sea of settlements.
'It could have been us,' says Ila, a Laxminagar resident, pointing to the charred hostel and mess buildings on the BJ Medical College campus. Her eyes shift left, to an aircraft taking off from the runway, just over 2km away. As it thunders past Block F, the 50-year-old shudders. A few lanes away, Rajesh Dantani (55), who runs a small grocery store near the Gujarat Housing Board colony, points to the spot behind his shop where the plane crashed — it's a stone's throw.
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