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.
Contrary to naysayers, the RSS practices what it preaches. It is closer to the Gandhian teaching of improving the individual morally and spiritually to change the external environment.
CM Yogi Adityanath claims that from being called a ‘bimaru’ state, UP is now among the top-3 economies in India. The 2026 Budget session of the UP assembly is currently underway.
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
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