An Air Line Pilots' Association of India spokesperson says there is little to no room for fuel switches to be cut off inadvertently, 'can’t just be moved or turned off and on by hand'.
Anagha AR, a senior resident at the hospital, was in a building few blocks away when Air India flight 171 crashed into the BJMC hostel. Around 40 students have been injured.
‘The area near the BJ Medical College and Civil Hospital, where the plane crashed, is relatively empty,’ Air Force Wing Commander Satyam Kushwaha (retired), told ThePrint.
The plane crashed into a medical hostel where many doctors live. A 52-year-old woman Shri Devi Vyamchendu, the mother of a PG doctor, has also been injured.
In 1978, an Air India Boeing 747 plane flying from Mumbai ‘plunged into the Arabian sea’ soon after takeoff. In 2010, an Air India Express aircraft flying from Dubai to Mangaluru overshot the runway.
Meghaninagar locality, where the Air India Dreamliner crashed with 242 people on board, is less than 3 km away from Ahmedabad’s famous riverfront and is dotted with a number of hospitals.
The lab is equipped to repair damaged black boxes, recover and decode flight data, and correlate information from cockpit voice recordings, radar, and flight data systems.
Premier David Eby, the leader of the minerals- and gas-rich province of British Columbia, spoke with executives at Tata Steel and Reliance Industries on a trade mission to India.
The 77th Republic Day Parade at Kartavya Path will showcase India’s operational synergy and self-reliance, highlighting combat readiness, indigenous weaponry and joint military operations.
No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.
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