Air India Crash

[Grim5]

Please ensure you check any videos before posting, and avoid any graphic images of bodies/injury/death.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1933091267141091694

 

[bainbridge]

Not looking good, but hopefully a good number of survivors.

The plane would have been fully fuelled though.

Looks like loss of power rather than loss of control, but I'm no expert.

 

[lookitsjonno]

RIP

Dream liner too, this is a big story

 

[sad099]

Awful, thoughts and prayers to the families, hopefully some survivors

 

[Freakbro]

The guy filming the clip sounds remarkably calm!

 

[Ayahuasca]

53 Brits on board reported

217 adults and 11 children

 

[darkgen]

That's pretty horrific. Looks like it buried itself into residential housing too. Gah.

RIP.

 

[bingham67]

Talks elsewhere on aircraft forum say the plane didnt backtrack for take off?

 

[dirtychinchilla]

That's shocking. The headline doesn't really explain the reality that the video shows. It looks like a total disaster

 

[Dis86]

Talks elsewhere on aircraft forum say the plane didnt backtrack for take off?

What, they've just tried to launch from halfway down the runway?

 

[Cleisthenes]

Looks horrendous, definitely going to be big news given it’s such a new plane.

 

[Penfold101]

Talks elsewhere on aircraft forum say the plane didnt backtrack for take off?

What, they've just tried to launch from halfway down the runway?

It’s gotten airborne, so even if they did it’s not the cause.

 

[bingham67]

What, they've just tried to launch from halfway down the runway?

Im not sure about halfway but here info I just read

Agree, if the FR trace is correct, it didn’t backtrack and had just shy of 1900m TODA. 787-8 is going to need about 50T fuel for that route so take-off weight in the ballpark of 205T. Googling the Boeing Airplane Characteristics, that weight suggests at least 2200m is required.

It would seem extremely odd to mistakenly take the only intersection available though which is half way down the runway rather than a backtrack.

 

[Junglist]

RIP

Dream liner too, this is a big story

This plan was already riddled in scandals, wasn't it? Sure the dreamliner had some whistleblowing stuff going on fairly recently.

In either case, horrible story and a non insignificant loss of life.

 

[Ayahuasca]

What, they've just tried to launch from halfway down the runway?

Early reports suggesting:

Plane on limit of max takeoff weight.
Didn't use whole runway (apparently they normally backtrack to end and turn but this went straight out from entrance).
From video, wheels are down and flaps up.

 

[Efour]

No one is surviving that... Rip.

 

[Ayahuasca]

This plane was already riddled in scandals, wasn't it?

I'm pretty sure this version of the dreamliner has an excellent safety record but could be wrong.

 

[BUDFORCE]

They don't have the best record those planes.

Although I guess this might be human error?

 

[Junglist]

I'm pretty sure this version of the dreamliner has an excellent safety record but could be wrong.

Ah, could well be the case.

 

[robj20]

I'm pretty sure this version of the dreamliner has an excellent safety record but could be wrong.

The only issue I can remember were the batteries.