A tragedy beyond comprehension.

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Our hearts go out to those affected by the Air India Flight 171 bound for Gatwick, UK, crash in Ahmedabad, India, yesterday, June 12,2025. The Boeing with 242 passengers plummeted into a residential area, hitting a medical college hospital, bursting into a furious fireball that consumed the place of the crash.

It is believed that a British national miraculously survived the crash. An unknown number of people on the ground, including medical students, were lost in the tragedy.

I cannot believe the profound devastation caused to India, which will be marked by shock and grief amid the loss of lives incurred. 

53 British, 7 Portuguese, and 1 Canadian were on board, among them a Senior Gujarat Minister. The United Kingdom has dispatched an investigation team, established crisis units, and offered assistance, while Portugal and Canada conveyed condolences, stressing the global impact of this devastating aviation disaster.

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Shobana Speaks on Tragedy:

A tragedy is beyond comprehension. The present signifies remnants of past occurrences. There is the unavoidable and the unpredictable. And tragedies are irreversible.

The worst airline tragedy in world history, in terms of fatalities, is the Tenerife airport disaster, which occurred on March 27, 1977.

In this horrific incident, 583 people were killed when two Boeing 747 jumbo jets, KLM Flight 4805 and Pan Am Flight 1736, collided on a foggy runway at Los Rodeos Airport (now Tenerife North Airport) in the Canary Islands, Spain.

The collision was primarily caused by a series of miscommunications between the KLM flight crew and air traffic control, coupled with dense fog that severely limited visibility. The KLM plane initiated takeoff without proper clearance, directly colliding with the Pan Am plane that was still taxiing on the same runway. 

This disaster led to significant changes in international aviation regulations, particularly in standardised English phrases for air traffic control and improved crew resource management in cockpits, all aimed at preventing such miscommunications from happening again.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster

https://skybrary.aero/accidents-and-incidents/b742-b741-tenerife-canary-islands-spain-1977

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