Air India flight down

[Austin Prefect]

Ahmedabad to Gatwick and crashed shortly after take off. I did see a suggestion it was a 787.

(Edited to say already covered in News and Politics - please disregard.)

Edited by Austin Prefect on Thursday 12th June 10:28

[TIGA84]

From the very sketchy video I've seen, it looks like it crashes into something, it flares into a landing and then just explodes but its out of view, but the impact is instant, like its hit something on the runway?

ETA - I don't think it was landing back at the airport, I thought it was returning from a problem but have read otherwise.

Edited by TIGA84 on Thursday 12th June 10:54

[Austin Prefect]

The video I've seen is supposed to be after takeoff. No flaps visible which would be odd for immediately after takeoff but very very odd for a landing. Suggestion in NP & E from is that flaps were raised instead of wheels causing loss of lift.

Could be just loss of power but on both engines this would be unusual, and if they couldn't maintain height why not raise the undercarriage?

[Super Sonic]

Already a thread https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[5150]

Amazing this has been moved away to the News section where you can only comment if you've been on PH for a year and posted a thousand replies!

I've been on PH since 2003 and flying since 1990 . . .