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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
Loychusak, who is now 47, recently took to Facebook to share his shock after knowing that the only survivor of the recent crash in Ahmedabad was also seated in 11A. “The lone survivor of the plane crash in India was sitting in the same seat number as me, 11A. Goosebumps,” he wrote.
Air India Flight 171 tragically crashed in Ahmedabad, with initial investigations focusing on a potential thrust failure during take-off. The pilot's distress call indicated 'thrust not achieved' moments before the crash.
Just days after his wife, Bharatiben, succumbed to cancer, Arjun Patoliya visited their native Gujarat village in India last week to fulfill her dying wish of being laid to rest there.
This comes nearly a month after a Turkish company managing operations at nine major Indian airports lost its security clearance, following Ankara's stance supporting Pakistan during Operation Sindoor.
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Zeenat Aman shared her grief on Instagram, reflecting on her emotional experience aboard an Air India flight shortly after the Ahmedabad plane crash tragedy.
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ET Now on MSNAir India plane crash in Ahmedabad: Govt sets up high-level probe panel; members, mandate, timeline - DETAILSNotably, the committee will not be a substitute to other enquiries being conducted by relevant organisations but will focus on formulating SOPs for preventing and handling such occurrences in the future.
At the hospital in Ahmedabad, family members were giving DNA samples, waiting for official confirmation of their loss in the Air India disaster, and remembering their loved ones.