The horrific crash of Air India Flight AI171 on Thursday, June 12, 2025, has left the nation in profound grief, with the confirmed death toll now sta

Skift’s coverage of the Air India crash is offered free to all readers. Air India CEO Campbell Wilson boarded AI143 on Thursday for the 1 PM flight from

LONDON and DELHI -- An Air India airliner carrying 230 passengers and 12 crew members en route to the United Kingdom crashed into a building shortly after takeoff on Thursday, leaving 246 dead and at least one surviving passenger, local officials and the airline said.

In a harrowing mayday transmission, pilots of the unfortunate Air India Boeing flight that met its end this morning in Ahmedabad reported engine trouble.According to The Express, the aircraft's final moments were communicated with the words "engine failure" heard on the Mayday call,

Only one passenger survived after an Air India plane that crashed carrying 242 people shortly after takeoff near Ahmedabad in western India on Thursday, Indian officials said, after local police said they feared there would likely be no survivors from the incident.

Investigators and rescue teams are searching the site of one of India ... to assist in the investigation, which Air India warned would take time. The crash marks the first fatal accident involving ...