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Air India flight to UK crashes in Ahmedabad in India shortly after takeoff

by testrun on 6/12/25, 9:25 AM with 10 comments

• by testrun on 6/12/25, 9:37 AM

  Video: https://x.com/PolymarketIntel/status/1933090218841678023

• by kashunstva on 6/12/25, 10:34 AM

  Devastating. In the video, the aircraft climbs at a low pitch angle, never retracts the gear, then enters a high AoA and appears to stall.

  Loss of thrust and failure to maintain V2? Takeoff misconfiguration? (Hard to see clearly from the videos; but are the flaps extended? Would probably be flaps 10 or 15 for the likely takeoff weight.)

• by testrun on 6/12/25, 1:23 PM

  More information of where it landed: https://x.com/SpiritOfCongres/status/1933112502121869530

• by testrun on 6/12/25, 9:27 AM

  https://x.com/flightradar24/status/1933086087682904336

• by yanko on 6/12/25, 1:14 PM

  Having impression that planes itself start being less reliable vehicles in recent years and the trend worsening As probably Boing is more often in the spot of failures.

• by ChrisArchitect on 6/12/25, 2:44 PM

  More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44255602

• by StanislavPetrov on 6/12/25, 9:30 AM

  Boeing 787 Dreamliner.