Topic: Airplane crash

Three days of state mourning in Maharashtra. Fadnavis and Shinde headed to Baramati to meet the Pawar family.

Ministry of Civil Aviation had in a statement Monday said ‘recent surveillance conducted on Air India’s Boeing 787 fleet did not reveal any major safety concerns’.

On a moonless November night in Assam, the Russian manufactured Tupolev Tu-124K V643, also known as Pushpak, landed about four kilometres off the Jorhat airport, killing five crew members. Morarji Desai was among the passengers who survived.

British national Jamie Ray Meek was one of the 242 people on board the Air India plane that crashed in Ahmedabad on Thursday afternoon.

In 1965, Balwantrai Mehta's jet was shot down during India-Pakistan war. Other politicians to perish in air crashes include Madhavrao Scindia, Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy & Dorjee Khandu.

The eyewitness, whose house is near crash site in Ahmedabad, says plane touched one building and then the other. ‘Scenes are tragic here.’

Ahmedabad Air India plane crash: Many feared dead, bodies being retrieved

According to Flightradar24, initial data shows aircraft reached maximum barometric altitude of 625 ft (airport altitude is about 200 ft) & then started to descend at -475 ft per minute

Union Home Minister Amit Shah has spoken to the Gujarat Chief Minister, Home Minister and the Police Commissioner regarding the plane crash.

On Monday, the Army Corps of Engineers will begin lifting the wreckage from the river, which officials have said could take a week or longer.