Plane Crash - this looks really bad

Oh no. This looks horrendous.

 

First pictures don’t look good for any survivors

 

Crashed on taking off. Will be terrible.

 

Oh jesus. That's horrendous. While such incidents are incredibly rare, as someone who flies a very lot they always shake me up when they do happen. Especially if it's a modern plane and a reputable airline. The majority that go down are airlines I'd probably try and avoid. But I'd have absolutely no qualms about using Air India for an international flight.

 

Awful news ,God help them ,it doesn't look good

 

So sad. RIP all.

 

It was a Boeing Dreamliner (number removed due to the issue posting numbers) - can’t be all that old as they’ve only been flying fifteen years. Not sure of the age of this one.

And Air India, as you say, are certainly not an airline you’d avoid.

An absolute tragedy whatever the cause.

 

I’ve just seen the footage on the bbc they’ve posted - I’m not surprised to hear there are no expected survivors. It looked to have barely got in the air, no more than a thousand feet, then just came back down. No obvious engine failure or fire before coming down.

Hit a Dr’s residence hall, inevitable there’ll be casualties on the ground too.

RIP to all the souls lost, and thoughts to the emergency services dealing with what are bound to be horrors that will stay with them for life.

 

242 on board all gone. Plane travel has come a long way over the years, but absolute tragedies can still happen.

 

This is absolutely awful, I'm sure they'll get to the bottom of it, but it looks like a double engine failure which sounds almost impossible but plane looked to be under control but with no power, landing gear had not been retracted - which would usually happen immediately after take off - best guess is that this happened on the runway and it was too late to abort the takeoff, but there was no power to continue flying, unbelievably sad for everyone, heartbreaking.

 

My lad was sat taxi-ing at Manc airport, bragging from Wifi that he had got Business class etc ........ then he said "wish I hadn't as breaking news from Air India is not what I want to see at this time"

 

I think it's read somewhere that it got up to roughly 650ft.....
Those poor souls on board :-(

 

The gear still being down is very strange if that was the case it usually retracted very quickly to reduce drag.
I would be very surprised if it was double engine failure in the very narrow windows between picking up speed to commit to take off and gaining enough altitude to be able to glide back round.

I wonder it the aircraft was configured correctly for take off or if something failed leading to the same outcome.
Position of the flaps on the wing are crucial to take off to allow enough air to flow over the wing to generate lift.

 

Following the young 'uns flight and this always amazes me. I mean - you seem so alone when your're up there!!

 

Well you are in many ways. Those maps always make us think like that because of the scale.

 

I guess so.
Still makes me shudder

 

Yep there was a pilot on one of the news programs spotted straight away that the flaps didn’t appear to be in the correct positions for takeoff

 

Reports of two survivors. One UK citizen, sat in seat 11A. No name on the other, but yet to be confirmed.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/indi...survived-air-india-crash-101749734358509.html

I've not, and won't be looking, but apparently some of the footage circulating from the crash site is Grade AAA++ horrific. Stay away.