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Today, the Air India crash and the miracle of seat 11A.
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Great Ideas Travel It was 1.39pm on Thursday afternoon when Air India flight AI171 took off for its nine-hour flight to London Gatwick.
The plane had only just left the runway at Ahmedabad airport when the captain issued a Mayday call.
Mayday, Mayday, Mayday.
The plane was in mortal danger.
Seconds later, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashed down into a busy residential area,
sending a massive fireball into the sky and destroying the residential quarters of a medical college.
We're getting reports of a plane crash in India.
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner was headed to London when it went down in a residential area near the airport in Ahmedabad.
Initially, all 242 people on board were presumed dead.
And then a video emerged from the wreckage,
showing a man walking away from the crash site, his face covered with cuts and bruises.