An air india flight from ahmedabad to london crashed into the B.J. Medical college hostel complex in the Meghani nagar area a few seconds after taking off from Sardar Vallabhbhai patel international Airport. Out of the 242 people on board in this accident, 241 were 4 medical students and relatives of 4 doctors. The total death toll has been confirmed at 270-274. This incident has caused great shock across the country. Initial reports indicate that the plane was unable to gain altitude after takeoff and had no thrust in its engines. This created a stir among air passengers when a mid-air engine failure occurred on a flight from london to Chennai. A british Airways flight that took off from london to chennai returned to london Heathrow airport about an hour after takeoff due to a technical fault in the wings. Following this, the plane made an emergency landing safely. The plane took off with 360 passengers and discovered an engine failure while flying in mid-air. The shocked pilots informed london Airport. Following this, they were immediately instructed to return to the airport.
Due to this, the plane circled in the sky for more than an hour to reduce the weight of the fuel on the plane and then landed safely at Heathrow Airport. In this regard, british Airways said that this was not considered an emergency landing, but was diverted to Heathrow airport as a precaution due to a technical fault. It said that all passengers were safely disembarked. Following this, the airline said that arrangements are being made to resume the passengers' journey. Since the flight landed in london before arriving in chennai, there was no damage at the chennai airport. However, the incident has caused shock among passengers. The flight service between chennai to london and london to chennai has been canceled today due to a technical fault in the aircraft. About 700 passengers have been affected.
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Sowmiya Sriram

16/06/2025 12:55 PM