“The impulse was not achieved … it falls … Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! ” It was the last words from the cockpit of Air India Flight 171, shortly before the plane crashed near Sardar Vallabhai Patel in Ahmedabad, India on Thursday, June 12, 2025, according to a report by Times of India, citing Ahmedabad police. The “Mayday” of the pilot was sent just minutes before the aircraft crashes on the ground, killing more than 270 people. Informing India’s air authorities on Saturday, authorities confirmed that Commander Sumeet Sabharwal sent a signal to air traffic control less than a minute after taking off from Ahmedabad Airport at 13:39 on Thursday. When air traffic control responded to the pilot’s danger signal, “there was no response,” said Samir Kumar Sinha, secretary of the Ministry of Aviation of India. He said the plane crashed seconds later, according to the British Guardian. Sinha stated that initial surveys showed that […]
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