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The Star
18-06-2025
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- The Star
More than 200 India plane crash victims identified
People carry the coffin containing the body of Akash Patni, who died after an Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner plane crashed during take-off from an airport, in Ahmedabad, Gujarat on June 17, 2025. - Photo: Reuters AHMEDABAD, (India): More than 200 victims of the Air India jet crash have been identified through DNA testing, Indian authorities said Wednesday (June 18), inching towards ending an agonising wait for relatives. There was one survivor out of 242 passengers and crew on board the London-bound plane on Thursday when it slammed into a residential area of Ahmedabad, killing at least 38 people on the ground. Distraught relatives have been providing DNA samples to help identify their loved ones, in a painstakingly slow process. "As of 2 pm, 202 DNA (samples) have been matched," Harsh Sanghavi, home minister of Ahmedabad's Gujarat state, wrote on X. The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner erupted into a fireball when it crashed moments after takeoff, with witnesses reporting seeing badly burnt bodies and scattered remains. Indian authorities are yet to announce the cause of the crash and investigators from Britain and the United States have joined the probe. Investigators are aiming to retrieve vital information from both black boxes recovered from the site -- the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder. India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau upgraded a laboratory this year where black boxes can be analysed. Following the crash, the civil aviation regulator ordered inspections of Air India's Dreamliners. Initial checks on the fleet "did not reveal any major safety concerns", the regulator said late Tuesday. "The aircraft and associated maintenance systems were found to be compliant with existing safety standards," it said. - AFP
India Today
17-06-2025
- India Today
Boy killed at tea stall in Air India crash cremated, family awaits compensation
On the sixth day after the Air India crash in Ahmedabad, the body of 14-year-old Akash Patni was finally released to his had been sleeping near his mother's tea stall when the London-bound Dreamliner plummeted into the BJ Medical College campus on June remains were handed over early Tuesday morning at Chamunda cremation ground, where mourners laid a bed of roses on his casket and a poster of his smiling face welcomed the final Akash's father, autorickshaw driver Suresh Patni, explained that though they were told to collect the body late Monday, they waited until dawn to perform the cremation mother, Sita Ben Patni, who was operating the tea stall at the time of the crash, survived with 50percent burns and is recovering after surgery at Civil stall was the family's main livelihood, supplemented by Suresh's the tragedy, the Patnis say they have received no word on any compensation. Suresh Patni urged authorities to extend the same support promised to aircraft passengers to families like his, who lost a loved one while simply trying to earn a InTrending Reel
New York Times
17-06-2025
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- New York Times
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Skip to contentSkip to site index U.S. International Canada Español 中文 U.S. World Business Arts Lifestyle Opinion Audio Games Cooking Wirecutter The Athletic U.S. World Business Arts Lifestyle Opinion Audio Games Cooking Wirecutter The Athletic Iran has reduced missile fire at Israel, which may be part strategy, part necessity. June 17, 2025, 3:26 p.m. ET The internet across Iran is being disrupted, experts and Iranians say. June 17, 2025, 2:40 p.m. ET As Israel attacks, Iranians flee capital in search of safety. June 17, 2025, 2:24 p.m. ET Family and friends gathered in the rain on Tuesday for the funeral of Akash Patni, 14. Patni was one of the first confirmed victims from the recent Air India crash that killed more than 270 people. Crowds of people overwhelmed with grief threw rose petals on his coffin as it passed. Friends held onto Patni's sister. His mother was hospitalized after the plane crashed into a building near the family's business. The son of a tea vendor in a tight-knit community, Akash was killed near his family's tea stall in the crash. Friends and relatives placed his shirt, pants and other personal items on his coffin in preparation for his cremation. Many families of victims in the crash must still wait for the identification and return of remains of their loved ones. More on the crash victims © 2025 The New York Times Company Manage Privacy Preferences
CTV News
17-06-2025
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- CTV News
Black boxes analyzed for cause of Air India crash that killed 270
Family members and relatives of Akash Patni, victim of the Air India plane crash, grieve during his funeral procession in Ahmedabad, India, Tuesday, June 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki) NEW DELHI — Investigators in India are studying the black boxes of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner after recovering them from the aircraft wreckage to ascertain the cause of last week's plane crash that left at least 270 people dead. The black boxes will provide cockpit conversations and data related to the plane's engine and control settings to investigators and help them in determining the cause of the crash. The London-bound Air India aircraft, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, crashed on a medical college hostel soon after taking off from the western city of Ahmedabad. Only one passenger survived the crash, while 241 people on board and 29 on the ground were killed in one of India's worst aviation disaster in decades. Experts from India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau are probing the crash with assistance from the U.K., the U.S. and officials from Boeing. Black box data is crucial Amit Singh, a former pilot and an aviation expert, said the recovery of the flight data and cockpit voice recorders, or black boxes, are crucial to piece together the sequence of events. The cockpit voice recorder records pilots' conversation, emergency alarms and any distress signal made before a crash. The plane's digital flight data recorder stores information related to engine and control settings. Both devices are designed to survive a crash. 'The data will reveal everything,' Singh said, adding that the technical details could be corroborated by the cockpit voice recorder that would help investigators know of any communication between air traffic control and the pilots. India's aviation regulatory body has said the aircraft made a mayday call before the crash. Singh said the investigating authorities will scan CCTV footage of the nearby area and speak with witnesses to get to the root cause of the crash. Additionally, Singh said, the investigators will also study the pilot training records, total load of the aircraft, thrust issues related to the plane's engine, as well as its worthiness in terms of past performances and any previously reported issues. Investigation into the crash could take time Aurobindo Handa, former director general of India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau, said the investigators across the world follow a standard UN-prescribed Manual of Accident Investigation, also called 'DOC 9756,' which outlines detailed procedures to arrive at the most probable cause of a crash. Handa said the investigation into last week's crash would likely be a long process as the aircraft was badly charred. He added that ascertaining the condition of the black boxes recovered from the crash site was vital as the heat generated from the crash could be possibly higher than the bearable threshold of the device. The Indian government has set up a separate, high-level committee to examine the causes leading to the crash and formulate procedures to prevent and handle aircraft emergencies in the future. The committee is expected to file a preliminary report within three months. Authorities have also begun inspecting and carrying out additional maintenance and checks of Air India's entire fleet of Boeing 787 Dreamliners to prevent any future incident. Air India has 33 Dreamliners in its fleet. The plane that crashed was 12 years old. Boeing planes have been plagued by safety issues on other types of aircraft. There are currently around 1,200 of the 787 Dreamliner aircraft worldwide and this was the first deadly crash in 16 years of operation, according to experts. Sheikh Saaliq And Rajesh Roy, The Associated Press
NDTV
16-06-2025
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- NDTV
Video: At Air India Plane Crash Site, A Mother Tries To Save Her Son
Show Quick Read Summary is AI-generated, newsroom-reviewed Ahmedabad: A video of a woman's desperate attempt to save her son has emerged from the Air India crash site in Ahmedabad. The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner had crashed into a medical college canteen, seconds after taking off from Ahmedabad airport two kilometres away on Thursday. All 241 on board, except one passenger, were killed in the crash, besides dozens of others who were on the ground. Akash Patni, 15, had stepped out to deliver tiffin to his mother, Sitaben, at a tea stall when the crash occurred. It caused a massive fire in the premises, videos showed. When Sitaben realised her son was in that area, she frantically sought help from those nearby, showed a video. Convinced she must do something herself, she tried to approach the crash site to rescue her son. But she couldn't. Akash did not survive. He was among the hundreds of victims who were on board that doomed flight, and the medical college at that moment. Sitaben was injured in the incident and hospitalised. The video also captured sole survivor Vishwash Kumar Ramesh walking out of the crash site, emerging from a thick cloud of smoke that marked his miraculous escape from one of the biggest tragedies of the century. Mr Ramesh, a 40-year-old British Indian seated in 11A on flight AI171, was seen walking out in a white t-shirt, holding his mobile phone in his left hand. He was rescued by the locals, who took him to a hospital. He still finds it unbelievable how he survived. "I don't know how I came out of it alive. For a while, I thought I was about to die. But when I opened my eyes, I saw I was alive. And I opened my seat belt and got out of there. The airhostess and aunty uncle all died before my eyes," he told Doordarshan. The doomed aircraft was flying to London from Ahmedabad with 230 passengers, two pilots, and 10 crew members. It crashed within 32 seconds of take-off, killing 241 people on board, including former Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani. DNA testing is being done to identify the victims and hand over their bodies to their families.
