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❗❗ BREAKING: Air India flight crashes in Ahmedabad

  • Publish date: since 23 hour
❗❗ BREAKING: Air India flight crashes in Ahmedabad

Here's what we know so far:

  • The flight crashed shortly after taking off.
  • 242 people were on board.
  • There is no official word at the time of sending this newsletter out on any casualties or deaths.
  • The flight was between Ahmedabad and London, to land at the Gatwick airport.
  • The flight was a Boeing Airliner 787, which has been in the news for consistently giving airlines maintenance troubles.
  • The flight took off at 1:38 pm, and crashed five minutes later, shortly after leaving the airport.
  • There was a 'mayday' call before it crashed. 

Ahmedabad's Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport is now shut.

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