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.
India will need to recalibrate crude sourcing strategy as US ends waivers for Russian & Iranian oil, energy experts say. But Russian crude will likely remain central to energy basket.
This special edition of Cut The Clutter, straight from the Siliguri corridor, details the strategic importance of the narrow strip of land in West Bengal, and how it’s a vital link connecting the Northeast to the rest of India.
We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.
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