Days after Air India’s Boeing 787 Dreamliner headed to London crashed minutes after taking off from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad, a video of authorities removing the aircraft’s wreckage is doing the rounds on the Internet. The aircraft, which was carrying 242 people, including passengers and crew, to Britain’s Gatwick airport, began losing altitude just seconds after take-off on June 12, before crashing and erupting into a fireball, marking the world’s deadliest aviation disaster in over a decade.
Shared by an X handle @Turbinetraveler, the viral video shows the crane lifting the aft fuselage section (rear part) of the Air India plane and removing it from the building. The aircraft plunged with a vertical speed of 475 feet per minute, its tail crashing into the first floor of the B J Medical College hostel’s mess, killing four medical students and the wife of a doctor, and leaving 20 students injured.
Watch the video here:
Removal of the aft fuselage section of the Air India Boeing 787-8(VT-ANB) from the BJ Medical College, Ahmedabad. pic.twitter.com/wh6ap1xNv6
— Turbine Traveller (@Turbinetraveler) June 15, 2025
The crash killed 241 people on board. In a miraculous turn of events, one passenger survived, 40-year-old British Indian national Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, who had been seated in 11A.
An officer said that Air Traffic Control (ATC) records, reviewed by the Gujarat Police, indicate the aircraft may have taxied at least 300 metres farther than usual on the runway. “It took off at 1.38 pm and just after a minute, around 1.39-1.40 pm, the pilot sent out a ‘No thrust… May Day…May Day’ message, following which communication was lost and a crash was heard,” the officer said.
On Saturday, Civil Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu informed that investigators would examine all circulating theories surrounding the crash. He further emphasised that aircraft are highly complex machines and determining the exact cause, or combination of causes, requires a thorough and meticulous investigation. The video of the deadly crash, which is all over social media, was shot by a Class 12 student Aryan Asari.
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