New Delhi: The aircraft involved in a crash near the Ahmedabad airport is Air India AI17 was a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner with registration number VT-ANB and serial number 36279, according to Flightradar24, which tracks global air traffic in real time
The first flight of the aircraft was on 14 December, 2013, and it was delivered to Air India in January 2014.
“Air India flight #AI171 was scheduled to fly from Ahmedabad International Airport to London Gatwick Airport. Scheduled time of departure was 09:50 local time and scheduled arrival time was 18:25 local time. The signal from the aircraft was lost at 10:08 local time at 625 feet, less than a minute after take-off,” Flightradar24 said in a post on X.
It said initial data from flight AI171 shows the aircraft reached a maximum barometric altitude of 625 feet (airport altitude is about 200 feet) and then it started to descend with a vertical speed of -475 feet per minute.
“We are following reports of a crash of Air India flight #AI171 from Ahmedabad to London. We received the last signal from the aircraft at 08:08:51 UTC, just seconds after take-off,” it said in another post.
The weather in Ahmedabad at the time of the accident:
Wind direction: 250°
Wind speed: 7kt
Temperature: 37°C
Dew point: 16°C
Pressure: 1001 hPa
Visibility: 6000 m
Also read: Air India has a problem. It should be much better run now without the political meddling