The crash of Air India Flight 171 on 12 June 2025, 32 seconds after departing Ahmedabad’s Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport bound for London Gatwick, claimed 241 of the 242 people on board and killed a further 19 on the ground, making it the deadliest aviation accident of the 2020s and the first fatal hull loss suffered by a Boeing 787 Dreamliner since the aircraft entered commercial service in 2011. The single survivor, a passenger seated near the rear of the aircraft, was pulled from the wreckage of a doctors’ hostel belonging to B. J. Medical College, into which the aircraft plunged after losing thrust from both engines within seconds of becoming airborne.
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