New Delhi, June 12 -- On June 12, an Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner operating flight AI171 crashed shortly after takeoff from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad. The London-bound flight plunged into a residential area near the airport, hitting a doctor's hostel building and causing a massive fire. The crash site was in the Meghani Nagar locality, a densely populated part of the city.

Emergency services rushed to the scene, but the tragedy resulted in a hat least over 200 casualties and over 50 injuries, marking one of the deadliest aviation disasters in recent Indian history.

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Flight AI171, carrying 242 people including 230 passengers, 10 cabin crew, and 2 pilots, crashed minutes afte...