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rixt
June 12, 2025, 10:01:00 GMT
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Air India Ahmedabad-London flight crashes near airport in Meghani area | Ahmedabad News - Times of India

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PPRuNeUser548247
June 12, 2025, 13:44:00 GMT
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The accident occurred in mid-afternoon, when bird activity around the Sabarmati river is known to peak, increasing strike risk to both engines.

SVPI ranks second in India for wildlife strikes | Ahmedabad News - Times of India

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mach411
June 12, 2025, 19:19:00 GMT
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Bird strike occurrences at Ahmedabad Airport

Don't know how common bird strikes are at other airports but I found several incidents at Ahmedabad:

https://www.google.com/search?q=site...t=gws-wiz-serp



And here's an article from last December describing the airport's measures to reduce the number of bird strikes:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/.../115851258.cms








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B2N2
June 14, 2025, 17:40:00 GMT
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Originally Posted by A0283
Captain in his 40\x92s with 8200 hrs but reported to have been flying for 22 years and being a training/check pilot. So would be interesting to hear more about confirmation of his experience.
Read about him here:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...campaign=cppst

He had 8200 hrs since they switched to digital records.

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PPRuNeUser548247
June 15, 2025, 10:48:00 GMT
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Post: 11902302
I see Times of India is reporting the last call to ATC was "Thrust not achieved… falling… Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!" Ahmedabad Air India crash: Long runway roll hints at thrust failure, black box key to probe; officials reveal final moments in cockpit | Ahmedabad News - Times of India

Given the evidence now in the public domain of RAT auto-deployment and simultaneous roll back, with no bird strikes, the most plausible primary trigger is a simultaneous, fuel-related thrust failure on both GEnx-1B engines. Simultaneous FADEC failure seems less likely, at least without tampering.

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CurlyB
June 15, 2025, 11:07:00 GMT
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Post: 11902314
Originally Posted by The Brigadier
I see Times of India is reporting the last call to ATC was "Thrust not achieved\x85 falling\x85 Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!" Ahmedabad Air India crash: Long runway roll hints at thrust failure, black box key to probe; officials reveal final moments in cockpit | Ahmedabad News - Times of India

Given the evidence now in the public domain of RAT auto-deployment and simultaneous roll back, with no bird strikes, the most plausible primary trigger is a simultaneous, fuel-related thrust failure on both GEnx-1B engines. Simultaneous FADEC failure seems less likely, at least without tampering.
1. The reduction of thrust is not limited to a fuel failure

2. Without any recordings, TOI is not a reliable source

2a. The long runway roll in the tagline has not been proven, as seen many times in this thread

3. The last words of a panicked captain may not be an accurate description of the situation

Your theory may be true, but it is speculation built on assumptions

EDIT: You're - your

Last edited by CurlyB; 15th June 2025 at 12:09 .

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Msunduzi
June 15, 2025, 11:52:00 GMT
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Post: 11902351
Originally Posted by The Brigadier
I see Times of India is reporting the last call to ATC was "Thrust not achieved\x85 falling\x85 Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!" Ahmedabad Air India crash: Long runway roll hints at thrust failure, black box key to probe; officials reveal final moments in cockpit | Ahmedabad News - Times of India

Given the evidence now in the public domain of RAT auto-deployment and simultaneous roll back, with no bird strikes, the most plausible primary trigger is a simultaneous, fuel-related thrust failure on both GEnx-1B engines. Simultaneous FADEC failure seems less likely, at least without tampering.

It's nearly 1000 posts ago I doubted the mayday call was genuine, and that ToI report helps to reinforce my doubts, it looks like they read this thread and created their report from that, it is just more speculation, some already disproven, certainly no more facts.


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helispotter
June 15, 2025, 12:31:00 GMT
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Originally Posted by The Brigadier
I see Times of India is reporting the last call to ATC was "Thrust not achieved\x85 falling\x85 Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!" Ahmedabad Air India crash: Long runway roll hints at thrust failure, black box key to probe; officials reveal final moments in cockpit | Ahmedabad News - Times of India
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Same distress call is reported in this recent "News Nine" clip and source is attributed to Ahmedabad Police but possibly also the Aviation Minister:


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PC767
June 16, 2025, 09:56:00 GMT
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Post: 11903277
Very early on I pondered why the person filming the aircraft from a building did so, as have others. Did something specificly out of character cause him to start filming and could that be evidence.

The answer is no. He was simply in the right place at the wrong time.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/.../121862125.cms

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skwdenyer
June 21, 2025, 16:23:00 GMT
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Post: 11907840
Originally Posted by EDML
That doesn\x92t make sense at all. 53% would be around 53t which is reasonable for that flight.
A full fuel load of 100t would have brought them by far over the MTOM as there is only around 8t of load left with full fuel of 100t. My guess with 242 POB and some baggage would be at least around 24t of load. Furthermore the fuel burn for tankering almost 50t for 9h would be enormous.

EDIT: Sailvi767 was quicker\x85
Multiple sources, including BBC, have quoted Amit Shah, Home Affairs Minister, as saying the plane had 100 tonnes of fuel on board. This seems to stem from a direct quote from Shah, in which it is reported he said:

The plane carried almost 1,25,000 litres of fuel, and due to the high temperature, there was no chance of saving anyone.
Using a rough approximation of 0.8kg = 1l leads to the 100t figure. Plenty of other sources for that 1.25 lakh litres fuel quote, including Times of India: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/.../121815339.cms

I have no idea if he actually knew how much fuel was on board, or whether he'd simply been told it was "full" and somebody had looked up the capacity (126k litres) and he then quoted that "full" number. Or whether, in fact, there was an excess of fuel. But since that seems so far the only public statement on fuel load, it shouldn't just be dismissed out of hand.

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