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An Air India level carrying 242 radical has crashed successful Ahmedabad, successful 1 of the country's worst aviation disasters successful decades.
Video footage shows the Boeing 787 Dreamliner level - which had been bound for London Gatwick - coming down conscionable extracurricular Ahmedabad airport, wherever it deed a doctors' hostel successful a residential area.
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Air India, which started operations successful 1932, and its subsidiary Air India Express person suffered respective fatal and non-fatal crashes implicit the years.
According to Aviation Safety Network (ASN) the astir caller fatal crashes were:
• May 2010: Boeing 737-800 (Air India Express) overshot the runway astatine Mangalore, India, and crashed into a gorge, sidesplitting 158 people.
• August 2020: Boeing 737-800 (Air India Express) aft landing successful Karipur, India, the craft near the runway, rolled down an embankment and broke up, sidesplitting 21 people.
Air India's history
The airline, the country's flagship carrier, is simply a backstage company, bulk owned by the Indian conglomerate Tata Group and number owned by Singapore Airlines.
The hose operates much than 5,600 play flights and connects much than 90 home and planetary destinations, with a fleet of 208 aircraft.
It flies much than 120,000 passengers each time and offers connectivity to implicit 800 destinations done much than 75 partners.
It was founded successful 1932 and was owned by the Indian authorities from 1953 to 2022.
Here are immoderate caller non-fatal incidents, according to ASN, which references assorted sources:
• September 2024: Boeing 737-8HG (Air India Express) suffered motor problems aft taking disconnected from Delhi, which was confirmed by the airline, and the craft returned to the airport.
• October 2024: Boeing 737-8HG (Air India Express) declared an exigency instantly aft take-off owed to a hydraulic contented successful Tamil Nadu, yet landing safely, which a section curate said had affected the landing gear.
• December 2024: Airbus A320-251N started the take-off rotation (the commencement of gathering up velocity to instrumentality off) connected a taxiway alternatively of the runway astatine Goa, according to the aviation information regulator, but stopped erstwhile alerted by a operation controller.
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• December 2024: Boeing 737-86N (Air India Express) returned to onshore astatine Kochi aft tyre debris was recovered connected the runway, according to Onmanorama, a section quality outlet successful Kerala.
• January 2025: Airbus A320-251N suffered an motor shutdown aft departing Bangalore and landed safely astatine the aforesaid location, according to the Times of India.
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