Public sentiment surrounding the survivor of the Ahmedabad Air India plane crash is characterized by a strong blend of admiration for his miraculous escape mixed with skepticism regarding the authenticity of his experience. Many commenters express deep sympathy for his traumatic ordeal while criticizing the media's intrusive questioning. While there's a notable appeal for privacy and mental health support for the survivor, concern over the tragic loss of victims remains prevalent.

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geology_person

I have a question I don't know much about it. The recent technical and fatal failures in boeing planes across the globe what about the question on maintenance from the airlines. Are those airlines actively maintaining and making necessary repairs to the planes??? Because there are airlines like Emirates qatar airways we barely hear boeing crashing there because they have record of good maintenance of aircrafts. I don't know much about aviation so looking for genuine response on this data please correct me if I'm wrong thank you

Pr1stine69

Dual engine failure but what caused that?

Totsuka1999

BrockStar-916

makeup-guy-852853

At the start of the video it seems it was descending. Then tried to pull up but can't. Can hear the engine though. And no smoke. Gear still down.

Is the air thin around those parts?

Some cargo came lose and altered the balance?

Ancient_Sea7256

ROOSTERyouDOWN

Silent_fart_smell

It was more like 32 seconds after takeoff.

Known-Bowl-7732

Now everyone knows that 11A is the survival seat. Prices for that seat going to increase 100x lol

verhovniPan

BigDikEnergy321

LeftcelInflitrator

theimpartialobserver

When the plane drops out of view and just before the plane exploded, I see a large piece of the plane fluttering above it. The surviving passenger said there was an explosion so I wonder if an engine blew up to make the large object I saw? Does anyone else see it?

BrierBob

[https://youtu.be/z7EZkungFEE?si=jkV4C4oilorE8cCR&amp;t=543](https://youtu.be/z7EZkungFEE?si=jkV4C4oilorE8cCR&amp;t=543)

this looks like the best explaination yet.

niyupower

FaceOpposite916

That was not 5 mins - it was crashing from the instant it took off and was sinking the moment it was out of ground effect

angusalba

God bless all of them and give them a peaceful return to the Light. 🤍

as for their families, numb their suffering and fill their hearts with love. peace peace peace calm

LowerChipmunk2835

When you are making an emergency landing like that you would typically dump as much fuel as possible if you don't the wings will be too heavy for the landing force and then boom.

ThePervyGeek90

Wild how someone survived this. I wish more survived. Rest in peace.

cconnorss

Why you wanna put that out here? 242 souls perished. Tell you what, I’ll wait for your video mmm’kay?

Oedipus____Wrecks

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The_Stereoskopian

Just gonna leave this here for all those nincompoops believing this was a manufacturing problem.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ahmedabad/s/EDZgzQRPxn

hunterxy

At 00:21, there are “dark lines” near the trailing edges on both wings, which might be due to extended flaps.

beaded_lion59

Sharp-Guest4696

Im sure it has nothing to do with removing engineering from management and the "do more with less" mantra. Those are both excellent ideas,please don't assassinate me.

Right_Reach_2092

tectoniclakes

How did that one guy make it out is just one in a trillion

09Trollhunter09

Video like this always drives me crazy.  Innocent people/Crew in one of best aircraft ever produced... this should never happen.  RIP.

TFWG2000

I always thought of aerodynamic stalls (probably what happened here) as being at a steeper angle of attack-- like plane's nose pointed more upward and plane stalls and falls. But this stall looked 'peaceful' and almost like they were just going to land again. 

A buddy of mine is a commercial pilot now, but I rode with him in a cessna practicing purposely stalling the plane. It's, climb to several thousand feet altitude, put full power on, pull the yoke into your lap, plane pitches nose-up, plane shudders/stall warning goes off, then plane drops sort of violently but regains airspeed because you practice stalls at several thousand feet altitude so you can recover. This crash was - zero altitude, and not enough power and lift, apparently. RIP to all.

MikeW226

Stupid question: what caused the fuel to ignite? Its not so easy to trigger the kerosene ignition. You can throw lighter in the bucket with kerosene and it will not ignite. That's one of the reasons its used in military over the gasoline.

Stupid question number 2: I remember reading that modern jets have very high (for airplanes) thrust-to-weight ratio. For military ones its even &gt; 1 (which means it can fly vertically like rocket). Shouldn't stall be impossible with such high power?

Reasonable_Mix7630

IWasSayingBoourner

Dont-rush-2xfils

I’m no expert but it kinda looks like they didn’t have enough power to lift it (correct me if I’m wrong cause I’m not an expert on stalling and such)

sneakerkidlol

For that plane to have fallen so immediately after take off the pilot should have known something was wrong prior to it taking off the ground .. there’s no way it’s fine and 10-15 seconds alter everything just craps out

BDZeus32

cadilaczz

Looks Like the Same takeoff of Air Florida flight 90.

Plane-Freedom-4505

10cennt

paxilsavedme

Probably a really stupid question, but it’s decent looks so controlled and slow it seems crazy it completely exploded, I’m guessing its hit into medical campus caused that, not just smashing into the ground?

MattyDxx

Looks to me like they ran out of runway -- look at the amount of dust blown as they're rotating.  There's a positive rate of climb, then you notice the nose drop a little, as if the flaps are raised too soon. The nose then comes back up again as the pilots try to arrest the rate of descent, but by then it's all over due to insufficient airspeed.

Cultural_Hamster_362

andersleben

the investigation has only just begun. No one knows what went wrong yet. Condolences to family and friends

Desperate_Donut3981

There are a lot of problems with maintenance in India. Technician trades aren’t valued. There is a lot of corruption.

Altaccount330

Ambr0sion

TheDaveMatthew

Scary to think it was in the air 10 seconds before it started to descend

Time-Bodybuilder5271

Chances of double engine failure happening at the exact moment takeoff is impossibly low. 

Right at 30 seconds mark the plane starts to plummet. This is when planes normally start to retract their wheels. 

So it's far more likely that pilot was drunk or something and made the most stupid mistake of retracting the flaps instead of the landing wheels.

Additional-Revenue53

My guess is pilot error. The gear never even started to go up which makes me think they may have accidentally retracted flaps instead.

kurtbdudley

It really looks like the plane lost all power as it lifted off the ground.

SpiderWolve

Genuine question for any pilots or engineers or whatever: why was this so catastrophic? My (ignorant) assumption is that having just taken flight, the plane could ease back down—it doesn’t even look like the wheels are retracted. I’m Not saying I think it could land with no problems, but why couldn’t it make a
rough landing? Why did it explode like this? What happened?

NoConsideration3061

Set Flaps to 0...niiiiice.....let's go.   

Pilot error VERY likely.

USSSLostTexter

The engines must have quit just after they left the ground. The plane gets a few hundred feet into the air, stops climbing and starts gliding. There are so many redundant systems on the 787 and the plane is designed to get into the air and climb with only one working engine. To have both fail at the same time is almost unheard of.

cosmic_trout

What happened exactly with the airplane to go down like this ?

Academic-Note1209

97esquire

No expert but it looks like the flaps ain't deployed.

A4Papercut

Lift then no lift. Not enough air speed looks like.

phreakingjesusonacid

sacredstones

So they are saying landing gear/tyres were still outside which made the plane heavy and more drag, hence it couldn't climb.

BulletTiger

If you look closely, I think the wings were bending as if the plane had been dragging them down coz you can see the wing tips point upwards, which I don't think happens even during take off and landing

InspectionDouble1843

Looks more and more like flaps up instead of gear up. But can't the 787 climb with gear down and no flap? Maybe not at that angle and in that heat?

Fun-Sorbet-Tui

Lol love how everyone is almost sure its the flap issue and pilot error, when there's no proof of that.

Flaps in TO config on 787 are difficult to see. Plus there's crash site pictures of the wings showing the flaps and slats deployed.

I'm from India, and the FDRs have been recovered. We'll know the reason soon.

Untill then, Please have respect for the dead and keep your expert opinions to yourself, and let the actual experts do their job.

isaacMeowton

Ive read conflicting information on this topic.. can anyone confirm?
If the RAT were deployed, does that provide hydrolics for gear up opperation?  Ive seen articles that indicate that while it provides various power for critical operations, gear up isn't one of those (only gear down)?

LongjumpingShirt4708

I see no flaps, but I’m not a pilot nor any of the videos are clear. And I was under assumption you can’t take off with wrongly configured plane.

makaton

Im now wondering if it was a significant load shift that played a part.

rhetheo100

Seems like not enough power, almost as if the plane had too much weight.

Debesuotas

RAT deployed because of one of three things failed 
Engine 
Hydraulics 
Electrical

Prior_Piccolo_1192

The alternative angle did not, in fact, reveal the impact.

Alarming_Finish814

Shit, I had no idea it was that huge an explosion. That makes the one guy surviving feel like Mr Glass was looking for him.

SamyMerchi

I can’t see flaps deployed on video. Does anybody else see flaps deployed?

kurakzg

Braddking

And an actual human walked away after being IN that.

c0wt0ne

These Indian pilots did the best they could. After an obvious total power failure they just set it down straight ahead the best they could. THEY DID NOT STALL the aircraft.

pjlaniboys

I really wish this dude wouldn't keep zooming in on the video. I can do that myself, thank you very much.  Just give us the original.

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Let the man process all the things, don't fucking shove a mic in his face for your bullshit. I hope the guy recovers from this mentally and physically. No one care about your bite he will speak when he wants to! God damn media

noob-from-ind

Why this background music. Cant focus on what he's speaking.

CryptographerSea1280

Mr__Nazgul

The PTSD in his life. Quite unimaginable. Hope he gets good therapy.  

silversurfer9909

Ha bhai music aur tez karle.. awaz arhi hai bande ki thodi..

Careless_Scallion_82

Man I hope he does not suffer from survivors guilt.

inGenium_88

polytonous_man

Talk about his Survivor Guilt poor guy has to spend the rest of his life….

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