Members of the Indian cricket fraternity expressed deep sorrow and extended heartfelt condolences to the victims and their families on Thursday after a London-bound Air India flight crashed shortly after takeoff in Gujarat's Ahmedabad.
According to DGCA, the London-bound Air India flight crashed in the Meghani Nagar area of Ahmedabad following the take off at 01:38 pm on Thursday.The Boeing aircraft was carrying 242 people including 12 crew members.
Chairman of Adani group, Gautam Adani, on Thursday expressed grief over the Air India Flight 171 crash incident, which happened near Ahmedabad airport and said that the group is working closely with authorities over the situation.
The graduate students enrolled in the Tri-Chandra Multiple Campus, one of the oldest government-run educational institution held the candle light vigil within the college premises on Thursday evening.
Visuals from the video apparently shot by a passenger of the ill-fated plane shows the landscape of the ground below as the plane circles and prepares for landing in Pokharan. A sudden explosion is heard and sounds of people screaming can be also be heard before the screen goes blank. Shots
Captain Amit Singh, commercial pilot and founder of Safety Matters Foundation, said that Nepal needs to develop its infrastructure to face risks related to flying in mountainous areas. He added that the terrain in Nepal is challenging and training standards of crew must be high.
Nepal's Civil Aviation Authority on Sunday confirmed that 29 passengers, on board the ATR-72 Yeti Airlines flight which crashed somewhere between the old airport of Pokhara region and the Pokhara International Airport, were confirmed dead.
The rebuke came after Hague District Court found Russian citizens Igor Girkin, Sergei Dubinsky and Ukrainian citizen Leonid Kharchenko guilty of the MH17 plane crash.
Paris [France], August 24 (ANI): Jawed Ashraf, the Indian envoy to France and Monaco, paid homage to the victims of the Air India flight crashes of 1950 and 1966 at Mont Blanc on Wednesday.