Air India plane crash: Only one survivor of 242 people on board

印度航空客机坠毁:机上242人仅有一人生还

Global News Podcast

2025-06-13

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An investigation is underway into the crash of Air India flight AI-171, which went down shortly after take-off from Ahmedabad. Also: scientists discover a previously unknown species of dinosaur in Mongolia.
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  • This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

  • I'm Charles Haviland and in the early hours of Friday the 13th of June India has confirmed that only one of the 242 people on board its flight that crashed into a doctor's hostel in Ahmedabad has survived.

  • also in this podcast.

  • Looking at it started to realize that it was actually kind of a very important specimen

  • because it represented an ancestor to some of those gigantic apex predators that we would see appear later in time like T-Rex.

  • Scientists have discovered a previously unknown species of dinosaur after delving into a fossil collection in a Mongolian museum.

  • Air India has confirmed that all but one of the 242 people on board its flight that crashed in Ahmedabad were killed.

  • The sole survivor is being treated in hospital.

  • The Boeing Dreamliner 787 was bound for London when it crashed on Thursday into a medical college hostel shortly after take-off.

  • It's believed local doctors were having a meal at the time of the accident and it's feared there are also many casualties on the ground.

  • Our correspondent in India, Davina Gupta, followed the day's events.

  • Around 1.30pm local time,

  • an Air India Dreamliner lifting off from Ahmedabad Airport, heading for London.

  • Thirty seconds later, a deafening sound,

  • flames and a cloud of black smoke as the airliner came down in a heavily populated residential area of the city.

  • An eyewitness described what happened.

  • I was sitting at home.

  • There was a loud noise.

  • It felt like an earthquake.

  • I came out and saw smoke.