Sonali Tiwary
Karmactive Team
7:46 PM IST- 18/06/2025
Addressing a press conference, Gujarat Cabinet Minister Rushikesh Patel says, “The incident in Ahmedabad on June 12 was tragic and unexpected. It should not have happened, but it did, and we had to respond to the situation. The Gujarat administration, including the Health Department, police, ambulance teams, and sanitation workers, acted swiftly. About 169 bodies have been handed over. Authorities coordinated postmortems, DNA identification, police reports, and documentation within 20 hours. For missing persons, advisories were issued, and blood samples were collected from relatives to help with identification. The media also played a supportive role in managing the situation.”
8:43 PM IST – 17/06/2025
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) seeks probe into the training records of the pilots and dispatchers for the AI 171 flight. Moreover, all the Boeing 787 flights departing from India are now directed to undergo pre-departure inspection.
8:14 PM IST – 17/06/2025
Camera captures the moment the sole survivor of the Air India Plane crash, Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, was seen walking back towards the site of the accident. The site was still in flames when MailOnline emergency worker Satinder Singh Sandhu desperately called Vishwash away from the wreckage.
8:25 PM IST – 17/06/2025
The insurance cover of Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner has been increased from Rs 750 crore to Rs 850 crore. The total insurance claims from the crash amounts to Rs1,500 Crore. Tata Aig AIG will pay Rs 100-150 crore, while the majority of the payment would be done by the international insurers.
7:40 PM IST – 17/06/2025
Investigators are currently studying the black boxes of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner after recovering them from the airplane crash debris. Recovering the black boxes would mean that the investigators will get access to the conversations among the pilots on board, as well as the data and control settings, which might help them in finding the reason behind the crash. Experts from India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau are probing the crash with assistance from the U.K., the U.S. and officials from Boeing.
As per Amit Singh, a former pilot and aviation expert, the recovery of all the data from the black boxes will play a crucial role in the investigation. The cockpit voice recorder records pilots’ conversation, emergency alarms and any distress signal made before a crash. The plane’s digital flight data recorder stores information related to engine and control settings. Both devices are designed to survive a crash.
The Indian government has set up a separate, high-level committee to examine and go through the causes leading to the crash and formulate procedures to prevent and handle aircraft emergencies in the future. The committee is expected to file a preliminary report within three months.
Authorities have also begun inspecting and carrying out additional maintenance and checks of Air India’s entire fleet of Boeing 787 Dreamliners to prevent any future incident. Air India has 33 Dreamliners in its fleet.
10:04 AM IST – 17/06/2025
Air India will receive nearly 4000 crores ($475 Million) in insurance claims for their aircraft. Recently, according to news reports, Air India increased the insurance claim by 100 Crores.
