Dense swaths of smoke rise above the scene of the accident. The demolished debris of the wreck, a burned -out wing, parts of the chassis, give an idea of the extent of the disaster.
At least 204 people died in an airplane crash in India, as the police from the German Press Agency announced. Injured were brought to hospitals.
242 people were on board. Air India’s aircraft had fallen into a building, according to unconfirmed reports, a “Mayday” call came from the cockpit shortly before the accident. How many of the victims were killed on the ground in or on the building remained unclear. The police initially spoke of a total of 40 injuries.
Survival of 11th place
The police had found a survivor on the plane in 11th place, reported a police representative of the Indian news agency Ani. He was taken to the hospital. It was unclear whether other passengers or crew members survived injured. The only survivor from the plane, which India’s Interior Minister Amit Shah visited in the evening in the evening. The police representative said there could also be further deaths – the plane crashed in a residential area.
A dormitory for doctors met. Videos showed that parts of the aircraft broke through the building. There were debris next to a dining area with the plates that have stopped. The Indian broadcaster NDTV reported that at least five medical students were killed when a part or parts of the accident machine fell on their accommodation.
During the day, rescue workers transported numerous corpses covered with white cloths covered by the crash site. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke of a “tragedy” that made stunned. “In this sad hour” his thoughts are among everyone affected.
Search for survivors runs
He had received the information that there were numerous fatalities, the Indian Minister of Health Jagat Prakash Nadda said on the platform X – without naming further details. Pictures and non -verified videos conveyed devastating impressions from the scene of the accident. Helpers searched for survivors in the evening. “The injured passengers were brought to the nearest hospitals by the local authorities,” said Air-India boss Campbell Wilson on the X.
The flight AI171, a Boeing of the 787 Dreamliner model, was to fly from Ahmedabad in the Indian state of Gujarat to London-Gatwick and arrive in England in the evening. The machine crashed only seconds after the start. According to the airline, citizens from India, Great Britain, Canada and Portugal were on board. Twelve crew members were divided for the flight.
Great sympathy: “shattering” pictures
Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz took part in X. “We mourn with the families and relatives,” he wrote, among other things. Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier expressed “the news of the devastating Aircraft accident At Ahmedabad Airport, in which so many people have lost their lives, I was deeply dismayed. “
The British Prime Minister Keir Strander wrote that the scenes were “shocking”. British King Charles III. could be informed about the current development. He and his wife, Queen Camilla, are deeply shocked.
“We share their pain,” said EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. Aimed at India’s premier modes, she emphasized: “Europe is solidarity with you and the Indian people at that moment.”
Crash immediately after the start
According to data from the aircraft tracker “FLIGHTRADAR24”, the eleven-year-old machine was scheduled for the flight with the labeling VT-ANB. This was to start in western India at 1:10 p.m. and land at Gatwick Airport at 6:25 p.m. (every local time). Ahmedabad is one of the largest cities in India and is located in the west of the country. 5.6 million people lived there in the 2011 census.
According to “Flightradar24”, the first data of the so-called ADS-B system, which delivers data on position, speed and flight every second, show that the plane had risen to a barometric height of 625 feet (190 meters). After that, a speed of 475 feet per minute fell.
The cause of the crash was completely unclear for the time being. The news agency PA quoted Natarajan Chandraskaran of the Air India owners who spoke of a “tragic accident”. The main focus is on the support of all affected people and families.
Boeing machines in focus
On social media, videos and pictures of the scene of the accident spread immediately after the crash. The work of the emergency services can also be seen on the non -verified recordings.
According to the Aviation Safety Network Database, it was the first accident with a 787 Dreamliner. In recent years, Boeing had repeatedly made headlines due to security problems. 346 people were killed in the accidents with the 737 Max plane aircraft in October 2018 and March 2019. Aviation authorities around the world had then banned flight bans for the model.
Only after a few technical improvements, the model was gradually released for air traffic. After the crash on Thursday, the Boeing share dropped by almost eight percent. On request, Boeing announced that they were in contact with the airline. “Our thoughts are with the passengers, the crew, the first aiders and all those affected,” said Boeing.
Over 200 fatalities for aircraft gaps in 2025
According to the Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives based in Switzerland, at least 250 people died in aircraft gaps in 2025 before the accident in India. The entire year 2024 it was 621. According to a balance of the Federal Association of German Aviation Economics, 334 people died in civil air in 2024.
In January 2025, for example, a passenger machine of the Bombardier CRJ700 passenger machine collided with a military helicopter in the US capital Washington. A total of 67 people were killed. The helicopter’s location is said to have been switched off.
At the end of December 2024, a plane crashed into a wall shortly after landing at Muan Airport at South Korean. 179 occupants lost their lives. Both engines showed clear traces of a bird strike. In the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo, a machine with 61 people on board fell into a residential area in the city of Vinhedo in August. No inmate survived. Around two weeks earlier, an aircraft fell to some of the runway at the capital airport in Kathmandu in the Himalaya state of Nepal, 18 people died.
Boeing and GE Aerospace strongly under pressure after 787 crash
Boeing’s shares on Thursday, after reporting an aircraft crash on the NYSE, will temporarily collapse by 4.85 percent to just under $ 203.70. This threatens a continuation of the latest consolidation after they had reached the highest level since January at the beginning of the week. For the previous course of the year, the US aircraft manufacturer would still have a price plan of a good 11 percent and one of the front places in the New York guiding index Dow Jones Industrial.
The titles of GE Aerospace – a few days ago as expensive as it has not been since the turn of the millennium – temporarily lost 2.02 percent to $ 240.56. According to a media report, the engine farmer wants to put together a team to travel to India and examine the cockpit data of the crashed machine of the Air India airline of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
The news of the crash aroused bad memories of several disasters with other type 737 Max Boeing machines.
Trump offers India after aircraft accident help
After the aircraft accident with numerous fatalities in India, US President Donald Trump offered support to the country. India is a “big” and “strong” country, but the United States would be ready to provide help immediately if necessary, said the Republican at an event in the White House in Washington. Trump was affected and spoke of a “terrible crash” and “one of the worst in the history of aviation”. So far, nobody knew what had happened.
Aircraft crash in India: British sent accident investigators
Great Britain sends its own investigators to India after the crash of a passenger machine. The news is devastating and the accident investigation will take some time, said Prime Minister Keir Strander, according to the PA news agency. The British flight accident authority AAIB announced that they will send their own team to India in order to support the investigation there.
In northwestern India, Air India machine crashed shortly after the start and crashed into a building. The plane was on the way to London. There were 242 people on board, including a number of British.
Reports that a British citizen is said to have survived did not confirm Prime Minister Starmer at first. They are in the process of determining the facts, said the Prime Minister, according to PA in London. They are in close contact with the Indian authorities. Her thoughts are among the friends and relatives of those affected, who “will be deeply shaken by these terrible news”.
Expert on Air-India crash: ‘At the moment you can only speculate’
According to aerospace expert Heinrich Großbongud, it is too early for information on the causes of the aircraft disaster in India. “An explanation could be, for example, that the starting flaps did not drive properly,” said GroßbonGardt in the ARD “Tagesschau”. “But at the moment you can only speculate, because it is crucial that the flight data writer is recovered, that the data is analyzed and then you can see what happened on the plane.”
The expert has increasingly increasingly quality to the Air India airline. “Air India had a very bad reputation for a long time as long as she was in state -owned.” The new owner, the Tata Group, invested a lot and raised the quality standard so far “that Air India was a member of the Star Alliance together with Lufthansa, United and other really very renowned airlines.”
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