section_path: Accidents and incidents/Fatal accident
section_name: Fatal accident
paragraph_text: Fatal accident
  
  On June 12, 2025, Air India Flight 171, an 11-year-old Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner registered as VT-ANB operating from Ahmedabad Airport to London Gatwick Airport, crashed into a medical college hostel 1.5km from the runway shortly after takeoff in the Meghaninagar suburb of Ahmedabad. 241 out of the 242 people on-board were killed, as well as 39+ people on the ground. The sole survivor was a British national seated in 11A, near the emergency exit. This marked the first fatal crash and hull loss of a Boeing 787. Joint investigations into the crash have begun by USA’s NTSB, Indian and British aviation authorities.