Ahmedabad Plane Crash: At least 13 Air India Dreamliner flights, the type responsible for the Ahmedabad plane crash, including one on the Ahmedabad-London route that was restarted after a fatal crash on June 12, were among 83 cancellations involving the airline’s broader widebody fleet. Investigators now face the grim task of sifting through the wreckage and decoding the cockpit voice and flight data recorders of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner to piece together what went catastrophically wrong in the seconds after take-off. Und
On June 12, the airline operated 90 wide-body flights, out of which 50 were 787s. Out of these, six were cancelled, including five Dreamliners. The aircraft were grounded due to technical or operational issues on Tuesday as regulatory checks and the closure of airspace on some sectors continued to disrupt the airline’s schedules.
Among the flights cancelled on Tuesday was Air India Flight AI-159, a Dreamliner, first scheduled to depart Ahmedabad at 1.10pm. A delayed departure set for 3pm was cancelled due to the “unavailability of the aircraft”, the airline said, adding that the jet that was meant to fly on the route had arrived late from London.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said 66 Boeing 787 Dreamliner flights were cancelled by the airline since June 12. According to figures presented in Parliament, Air India averaged around four cancellations per day due to technical or operational reasons in 2024.
Earlier on Tuesday, the regulator held a high-level meeting with senior officials of Air India and Air India Express on Tuesday and stated the airlines are “currently operating over 1,000 flights daily across domestic and international sectors.”
Captain Kishore Chinta, a former investigator with India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), calls this “the rarest of the rare” crashes – a controlled flight into terrain just 30 seconds after take-off. “To my knowledge, nothing quite like this has ever happened,” he told the media.
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