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News24 | Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner with 242 aboard crashes minutes after take-off

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News24 | Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner with 242 aboard crashes minutes after take-offAn Air India plane headed to London with 242 people on board crashed minutes after taking off from India’s western city of Ahmedabad, the airline and police said, without specifying whether there were any fatalities.
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Air India Crash Mystery: A London-bound Air India flight — AI171 — carrying 242 people, including 169 Indian nationals, crashed shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad’s Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport. The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner was en route to London Gatwick when tragedy struck...

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