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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.
India Today
14-06-2025
- General
- India Today
Gujarat mother escapes Air India plane crash, son sleeping inside tea stall dies
A 14-year-old boy, who was sleeping under a tree near his family's tea stall in Ahmedabad, died after an Air India plane crashed into a nearby resident doctors' hostel in Ahmedabad on Thursday. Her mother survived the tragedy, but was hospitalised with burn victim, Akash Patni, was sleeping in the tea stall close to the BJ Medical College hostel building where the London-bound flight turned into a massive fireball, minutes after taking off from Ahmedabad mother, Sitaben, unsuccessfully tried to save her son from the fire and debris and was hospitalised with burn injuries. A video showed Sitaben running amid a massive fire and thick plumes of black smoke engulfing the area as panic-stricken people ran for their lives. (The video below may be disturbing. Viewers' discretion advised) Sitaben, who is admitted to the ICU at the Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad, said she did not see the flight, but heard a loud explosion and saw plumes of black smoke."The plane crashed behind (our tea stall) and there was a loud sound. A massive fire broke out. Nothing was visible. My son was sleeping inside the shop and he died," she victim's father Suresh Kumar, who also survived the tragedy, recalled the circumstances that led to the plane crash and the death of his son and I were at home and my wife was at the tea stall. He had gone to give food to my wife. He fed his mother and slept there at the shop. Suddenly, the plane crashed and there was a massive fire near our shop. My wife survived and she has been hospitalised," he said he and his family were looking for Akash but were told by the hospital authorities that his body was kept in the AIR INDIA PLANE CRASHThe Air India plane, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, carried 242 people - 230 passengers, two pilots and 10 crew members - and was headed for London's Gatwick airport after it took off from the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad at 1.39 pm on Thursday. The plane went up to 625 feet before it descended rapidly, and then crashed into the BJ Medical College and crash killed 265 people, including 241 passengers on board, and left just one survivor, an Indian-origin British national, who is hospitalised. The Ahmedabad tragedy is one of the world's worst aviation disasters in a crash marked the first fatal accident involving a 787 since its commercial debut in the crash, all planes under the Boeing 787-8/9 fleet of Air India will undergo an enhanced safety inspection starting Sunday, the Civil Aviation Ministry has engine and hydraulic systems monitoring are among the advanced checks ordered by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), which will seek a report of the checks for review.(with inputs from Vidya Kumar)Tune InMust Watch IN THIS STORY#Ahmedabad Plane Crash#Ahmedabad
