Air India captain's last words before plane crash

Captain Sumeet Sabharwal of crashed flight AI171 in India sent out a desperate distress signal before the plane crashed into a residential area.

According to the Daily Mail, Air India's Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, flight number AI171, en route to London (UK), crashed into a dormitory of a medical school near Ahmebadab airport, India, just seconds after takeoff on the afternoon of June 12.

Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, who had 8,200 hours of flying experience, sent out a distress signal before the plane crashed.

Captain Sumeet Sabharwal. Photo: DM.

"Mayday. No thrust, no power, can't climb!" Captain Sumeet Sabharwal sent a desperate distress signal.

The plane then crashed into a building and burst into flames. Air India confirmed that 241 of the 242 people on board flight AI171 died in the crash.

First Officer Clive Kundar. Photo: DM.

Video footage of the crash shows Captain Sabharwal and Clive Kundar, a co-pilot with 1,100 hours of experience, trying to raise the plane's nose before the tragedy occurred.

In addition to the victims on the plane, at least 50 people on the ground are believed to have been killed and many others injured after the plane crashed into the doctors' dormitory at the medical school, where doctors, students and staff were eating lunch in the school's cafeteria.

Authorities are still investigating the cause of the accident. Aviation experts have put forward two main theories about the cause of the tragedy, including that a flock of birds may have been sucked into the engine, causing it to shut down when it was most needed.

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Video source: X/Daily Mail.

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