India to London plane crashes with 242 people on board

[Smithy]

A plane carrying 242 people, including 53 British nationals, to London Gatwick has crashed in India.
Local police said there appeared to be no survivors after the Air India Flight 171 came down in a residential area near Ahmedabad Airport shortly after take-off.

But British man Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, survived the crash, his family members have told Sky News.
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Image:Vishwash Kumar Ramesh. Pic: Hindustan Times
He told the Hindustan Times newspaper he heard a "loud noise" around 30 seconds after take-off before the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner went down.

"It all happened so quickly," he said, adding that he suffered "impact injuries" to his chest, eyes and feet. "When I got up, there were bodies all around me. I was scared. I stood up and ran."
A fireball can be seen in footage as the plane crashed, hitting a doctors' college residential quarters, in the north-western city in Gujarat state.

Source: https://news.sky.com/story/india-to-london-plane-crashes-with-at-least-242-people-on-board-13382483

 

[Don Alaska]

Strange things have been going on around India. They just had a cargo container ship explode offshore as well. Is Pakistan up to no good?

 

[Yvonne Smith]

In the video of the plane, there is some kind of a grey blurry blob near the plane. I have read that people think it could have been a bird, or the pilot did not use the wing flaps, but it sounds like they really do not know what caused the crash yet.
It crashed into a building full of people, so there were fatalities from there as well as from the airplane.

 

[Smithy]

In the video of the plane, there is some kind of a grey blurry blob near the plane. I have read that people think it could have been a bird, or the pilot did not use the wing flaps, but it sounds like they really do not know what caused the crash yet.
It crashed into a building full of people, so there were fatalities from there as well as from the airplane.

Yes something is strange but no one knows until the experts tell us so.
It's madness how one person has survived which makes it a bit more fishy..

 

[Sheryl]

From the video, it looks like the plane exploded into a ball of flames on impact. How is it possible that he escaped without any burns?

 

[Marie Mallory]

Lots of questions about this flight.

 

[Don Alaska]

This pilot thinks he has the answer as to what happened, but has no clue why it happened:

Skip through the commercials if they show up.

 

[Don Alaska]

I understand yet another plane of Air India has had to return to origin due to problems. Since this seems to be a recent string of problems, I would guess that someone(s) are behind it. Pakistani supporters would be my first thought.