Boeing 787 crashes with 240 on board. One survivor walks away from the crash.

[MarathonMike]

Boeing's woes continue as this is the first crash of the 787 series jets. Amazing, the lone survivor appears to have sustained no injuries.

Air India crash live updates: Plane headed to London crashes with more than 240 onboard

An Air India passenger plane bound for London and carrying more than 240 passengers crashed into a medical college after takeoff Thursday in Ahmedabad, India, officials said.

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[ShahdagMountains]

Boeing's woes continue as this is the first crash of the 787 series jets. Amazing, the lone survivor appears to have sustained no injuries.

Air India crash live updates: Plane headed to London crashes with more than 240 onboard

An Air India passenger plane bound for London and carrying more than 240 passengers crashed into a medical college after takeoff Thursday in Ahmedabad, India, officials said.

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I bet everyone will try to bag seat 11 C for their future flights

 

[g5000]

Boeing stock has taken a dip today.

Plunged 5 percent.

 

[ShahdagMountains]

Boeing stock has taken a dip today.

Plunged 5 percent.

No one ever imagined that a state of the art plane with a brilliant track record could fail so spectacularly.

 

[MarathonMike]

No one ever imagined that a state of the art plane with a brilliant track record could fail so spectacularly.

Very curious as to the details of weather, wind, pilot experience etc. associated with this crash.

 

[ShahdagMountains]

I was at the Dulles Air and Space Museum recently, looking around at planes of various shapes and sizes, and wondering to myself how they could ever get off the ground and stay in the air.

 

[ShahdagMountains]

Very curious as to the details of weather, wind, pilot experience etc. associated with this crash.

Me too.

 

[ShahdagMountains]

Anybody a bit nervous about flying?

I’m taking off in a couple of weeks.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

The 787s have been in service for 14 years.
This is the first one to crash.
I suspect pilot error or terrorism.
Take off crashes are rare.
Past take off crashes have been caused by pilots forgetting to put their flaps down.

 

[ShahdagMountains]

The 787s have been in service for 14 years.
This is the first one to crash.
I suspect pilot error or terrorism.
Take off crashes are rare.
Past take off crashes have been caused by pilots forgetting to put their flaps down.

There’s much talk about those flaps. At least the plane was visible on camera prior to crash.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

There’s much talk about those flaps. At least the plane was visible on camera prior to crash.

Yea, they had the flaps up and the gear down, instead of the gear up and the flaps down.
That is pilot error.

 

[el midgetron]

 

[ShahdagMountains]

The Dreamliner had been labelled as the safest plane up until the crash of Air India.

The 787-8 had not been in a fatal incident since its introduction.

It is one of the most advanced jets and was brought into service in 2011, with Boeing selling more than 2,500 of the model to airlines, including 47 to Air India.

 

[Paddlefoot]

I bet everyone will try to bag seat 11 C for their future flights

Seat by the door so the frame is sturdier there.

 

[ShahdagMountains]

Seat by the door so the frame is sturdier there. View attachment 1122990

But his brother did not survive.

 

[frigidweirdo]

Boeing's woes continue as this is the first crash of the 787 series jets. Amazing, the lone survivor appears to have sustained no injuries.

Air India crash live updates: Plane headed to London crashes with more than 240 onboard

An Air India passenger plane bound for London and carrying more than 240 passengers crashed into a medical college after takeoff Thursday in Ahmedabad, India, officials said.

apnews.com

Seems like it might have been pilot error. A video I watched suggest the co-pilot might have pulled the flaps up rather than the landing gear.

 

[ShahdagMountains]

Seems like it might have been pilot error. A video I watched suggest the co-pilot might have pulled the flaps up rather than the landing gear.

That sounds plausible.

But it’s all still conjecture at this stage.

 

[frigidweirdo]

That sounds plausible.

But it’s all still conjecture at this stage.

Yes, it is. This pilot went through the three possibilities. There was fuel contamination, birds and pilot error, and he went for pilot error. There was no evidence of birds, no smoke coming out of the engines. Fuel contamination is a possibility.

 

[JWBooth]

I dunno about anybody else, but there is no way I would get on an aircraft owned, operated, or maintained by third world peoples.

 

[ShahdagMountains]

At least 260 people have died in Ahmedabad after an Air India flight crashed into a building, mere seconds after taking off.

The disaster is the latest in a string of commercial airplane crashes that have killed hundreds of people.

At the start of the year, an American Airlines flight collided with a military helicopter over Washington, killing 67.

While the aviation industry maintains exceptionally high safety standards, the recent string of high-profile incidents has raised concerns that flying may be becoming more risky.

The average number of deaths during flights per year currently stands at 284, according to Jan-Arwed Richter, founder of Jacdec, a German consulting firm that tracks aviation safety.

That means 2025 has already had almost double the average number of air travel deaths.

Mr Richter told Bloomberg: 'This year still has more than six months to go, so this could be concerning if this rate of fatal accidents would go on.'

While many people will likely now have concerns about the safety of air travel, experts reassure that flying is not getting more dangerous.

Dr Simon Bennett, director of the civil safety and security unit at the University of Leicester, told MailOnline: 'That perception is understandable because safety goes through peaks and troughs.

'So if you take a snapshot at a particular time it can either look like things are getting seriously dangerous or that things are getting seriously safe.'

2025's high level of fatalities comes on the back of one of the safest periods in the history of air travel.

Is flying getting more dangerous? Why so many planes are crashing

The Air India disaster is the latest in a string of commercial airplane crashes that have sadly claimed the lives of hundreds of people.

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