Medical students who survived when an Air India plane crashed into their hostel say their first reaction was to help treat the injured

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) summoned the executives of Air India and Air India Express on Monday, amid the probe investigating the crash of Air India Flight 171 and ongoing disruptions on its flight network. DGCA has summoned the executives in a virtual meeting that will be chaired by DG Fazi Ahmed Kidwai.

At least 270 died when the Air India flight crashed into the campus of a medical college in Ahmedabad shortly after takeoff on Thursday. Only one passenger among the 242 aboard survived. At least 29 others on the ground, including five medical students inside the hostel, were also killed.

Three days after the crash, only 35 bodies had been handed over to relatives from an overall official death toll of 270.

The harrowing incident saw the London-bound Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner plunge into a residential area in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, killing 241 passengers on board and another 38 people on the ground. Now, commercial airline pilot and crash analyst Steve Schreiber has pointed to fresh footage as a key breakthrough in understanding what went wrong.

The horrific crash of Air India Flight AI171 on Thursday, June 12, 2025, has left the nation in profound grief, with the confirmed death toll now sta

Search and recovery teams continued scouring the site of one of India's worst aviation disasters for a third day after the Air India flight fell from the sky and killed at least 270 people in Gujarat state,

Loychusak, who is now 47, recently took to Facebook to share his shock after knowing that the only survivor of the recent crash in Ahmedabad was also seated in 11A. “The lone survivor of the plane crash in India was sitting in the same seat number as me, 11A. Goosebumps,” he wrote.