It was Thursday afternoon around 1:39 PM when air India flight took off from Ahemdabad airport bound for London Gatwick airport and shortly after taking off it crashed in near by hostel of medical college.
This accounted one the worst Indian aviation plans crash and also first crash of Boeing 787 Dreamliner which was affected Boeing stock price, as it fell by 5% in US market. Dreamliner were enter in service in around 2011, plane was aged at 12 year old. 241 soul were on board while it took off and take was recorded on some CCTV camera in which it was seen that aircraft reach around 600 ft but it started going down after which eventually crashed in residential neighbourhood. Pilot made MAYDAY call to air traffic control but before ATC respond back, signal was lost and ATC didn’t heard back. Big smoke was seen right after the MAYDAY call.
Possible errors
First of all, pilots were well experienced to handle it, caption was having around 8,000 hours of flying experience and co-pilot 1,500 hours flying experience. Mostly speculated error or fault was duel engine failure which can cause plane to lose thrust and which can bring down plan right after takeoff. Double engine failure can also caused by fuel contamination or clogging. Another reason can be bird strike but some of the video recorded, it’s not be seen that it was any bird cause crash. Last but not least cause, flap coming in lime light as seen from video, expert citing flaps were not on proper position which it required during take off. But all of mentioned causes are just speculation as of now, until black box are not recovered and data from it investigated
General Electric – engine manufacture is sending team to India to help with investigation of air India crash.