Survivor of Air India crash says how he escaped plane
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An Air India passenger plane carrying more than 200 people crashed after taking off from an airport in the Indian city of Ahmedabad on Thursday.
A British Airways flight to Chennai, India, entered a series of holding patterns to dump fuel before returning to London's Heathrow Airport.
The cockpit voice recorder (CVR), commonly referred to as one of the two black boxes of the aircraft, has now been recovered from the debris, local media reported. The critical piece of equipment could include pilots' conversations from the cockpit, alarms and background sounds from the moments before the devastating crash.
Air India flight 171 crashed on a building minutes after takeoff near the airport in India’s western city of Ahmedabad.
An Air India plane with more than 200 people on board crashed near the airport in India's city of Ahmedabad, the airline and police officials said.
An Air India flight bound for New Delhi has returned to Hong Kong as a precautionary measure, after the pilot suspected a technical issue mid-air.
Three days after the crash, only 35 bodies had been handed over to relatives from an overall official death toll of 270.
Boeing was generating optimism. Then on Thursday a 787 crashed, raising the specter of fresh problems for Boeing and altering the message it planned to send.
An Air India pilot turned back his Delhi-bound Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner to Hong Kong airport as a precaution shortly after taking off on Monday, citing a technical issue, Indian media reported. Flight tracking data showed the pilot turning Flight AI315 around less than 30 minutes into the flight from Hong Kong.
Seven people have died in a helicopter crash in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand. According to the BBC, a helicopter carrying visitors to a number of Hindu religious pilgrimage sites in the Himalayan mountains crashed on Sunday, June 15, during what would have been a 10-minute flight.
Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, a British national, appears to be the only survivor of Air India flight 171, which crashed with 242 people aboard.