Air India flight AI171 took off from Ahmedabad airport on the afternoon of 12 June with 242 individuals on board. Lower than a minute later, it had crashed right into a medical school about 1km away.
Together with these on the bottom, no less than 270 individuals had been killed. However one passenger miraculously survived. Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, a British nationwide sat in seat 11A, was in a position to stroll away from the scene – although, as he discovered quickly after, his brother had died on board.
The aviation journalist Jeff Smart explains what investigators will likely be to find out the trigger the crash – from the aircraft’s touchdown gear, to its wing flaps and potential pilot error. Helen Pidd asks the way it was potential that Ramesh was in a position to escape along with his life.
