Plane crash in India: what is known

The passenger board of the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner of Air India crashed on the morning of June 12 near the city of Ahmedabad immediately after takeoff. There were 242 people on board, this is the first plane crash for Boeing 787-8 Dreamliners. Details can be found in the Izvestia article.

The crash of the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner in India on June 12

The passenger board of the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner of Air India crashed on the morning of June 12 near the city of Ahmedabad in northwestern India, in the state of Gujarat.

According to the General Directorate of Civil Aviation of India, 242 people were on board, including 2 pilots and 10 flight attendants.

The pilots sent a distress signal to the control service shortly after takeoff, the Indian regulator said. The plane failed to gain altitude and immediately after takeoff crashed into a residential area, debris from the tail section fell on houses. The photo from the scene shows a thick column of black smoke.

At least 20 ambulances have already arrived at the scene of the tragedy, NDTV reports. The roads around are blocked.

This disaster was the first for the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft.

Air India announced that the flight was scheduled to fly to Gatwick Airport in London. The report says that an "incident" has occurred with the board, and the company is currently investigating the details of what happened. There is no official data on the causes of the accident yet.

According to preliminary data, there were no Russians on board, the Consulate General in Mumbai reported.

According to Indian media, the ex-head of the state of Gujarat, Vijay Rupani, was on board the plane. Nothing is known about his condition.

India's Ahmedabad International Airport has temporarily suspended all flights, according to media reports.

What is known about the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner and Boeing disasters

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner was developed by an American company together with some foreign partners. After a number of delays, the Dreamliner took off for the first time in December 2009.

Last year, one of the engineers of the American Boeing company, Sam Salehpour, who has worked for the company for more than 10 years, said in an interview with The New York Times that the fuselages of the Dreamliner contain serious defects.

According to him, the fuselage of the aircraft is supplied in the form of several parts from different manufacturers, and they do not have the same shape at the junctions. Problems have arisen in the fastening points directly on the assembly line.

Over the past year, the American aircraft manufacturer Boeing has repeatedly been caught in the epicenter of scandals, and accidents with the corporation's airliners have occurred regularly around the world.

So, on April 8, it was reported that the right engine casing of the Boeing-737-800 aircraft of the American airline Southwest Airlines collapsed during takeoff.

On March 8, the Boeing 777 lost a tire on its flight from San Francisco to Japan, forcing it to make an emergency landing in Los Angeles. In addition, a tire fell into the parking lot and damaged several cars.

On February 5, Tim Clark, the head of Dubai-based Emirates airline, criticized the American company Boeing for the decline in aircraft quality. He added that Boeing had one last chance to correct mistakes.