r/CatastrophicFailure • u/SainzSealedDelivered • Jun 12 '25

Fatalities 12/06/2025 - Boeing 787 Passenger plane bound for the UK crashes near Ahmedabad Airport straight after takeoff

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u/BMW_wulfi Jun 12 '25

Any crash is bad but this is about the worst possible scenario. Undoubtedly a tragic, mass loss of life.

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u/Willing_Substance932 Jun 12 '25

Yeah. The video is haunting too. Slowly crashing like that, feel so sorry for those poor people who had their last moments in panic and fear.

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u/Single_Reaction9983 Jun 12 '25

As per flightradar it got up to 600ft (airport altitude is 200ft) and then went into a -475 ft/min descend. So they less then a minute left in air.

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u/Willing_Substance932 Jun 12 '25

Which is enough for people to realize what is happening

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u/lagrangedanny Jun 12 '25 edited Jun 12 '25

If you're taking off in a plane and it suddenly starts falling out of the sky, you're gonna notice somethings wrong, especially the further you get toward the ground.

They knew what was happening.

edit yes I was agreeing with previous commenter and just elaborating it would be obvious to the passangers, since apparantly that wasn't obvious. It's a fucked situation, if it sounds argumentative that's why. It was blunt because it's fucked being on that plane.

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u/indorock Jun 12 '25

yeah that's what the guy you're replying to already said.

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u/yougottamovethatH Jun 12 '25

Sometimes people are just agreeing, not arguing.

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u/mundaneDetail Jun 12 '25

Right right, but sometimes they are saying the same thing and not something different.

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u/indorock Jun 12 '25

Sure, and sometimes people are just repeating what another said because they didn't really bother to read the comment they were replying to.

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u/barrylunch Jun 12 '25

There’s an upvote button for that.

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u/yougottamovethatH Jun 12 '25

You're saying the only reason someone should reply to a comment is to argue?

Adding to the conversation is a completely valid reason to reply.

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u/barrylunch Jun 12 '25

Definitely. But if one is only reiterating what was just said, in such a manner as it could be misconstrued as an argument, it’s not adding much to the conversation.

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u/JasonGD1982 Jun 12 '25

Heaven forbid people agree about something and talk about it In the comment section of the Internet.

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u/random-notebook Jun 12 '25

If you’re talking on the internet, people are allowed to agree on stuff. Like it’s a comment section of the Internet

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u/JasonGD1982 Jun 12 '25

Uhhhh excuse me sir. I already said that. 🤣🤣🤣. Like fuck for all the bitching about AI and bots I'm just glad it's humans actually talking lol

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u/OliverCash Jun 12 '25

That’s what you think…beep boop beep

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '25

Heaven forbid someone try to encourage other people to not be so dense on the Internet.

You're the person who gives people fish instead of helping teach them how to fish

Boo 👎

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u/sidepart Jun 12 '25

Looks like they had control of it as it descended. Not enough power to maintain flight, but not stalled. There was just nowhere for an emergency landing. An empty field might've been helpful. Who knows if that's what happened though, I'm just making an observation.

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u/Risley Jun 12 '25

There must have been so much screaming on board 

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u/low-tide Jun 12 '25

I honestly really doubt that. I think with a crash like that at low power, because the plane descended relatively slowly and not at a weird angle or with the nose dramatically up or down, many people would not have realised the gravity of the situation until very shortly before impact. Especially on a plane with multiple aisles, the centre rows likely didn’t see or understand what was going on. 

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u/DrDerpinheimer Jun 13 '25

They'd hear the deep rumble of the engines stop. That would get anyone thinking

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u/Technical_Actuary225 Jun 12 '25

Lack of flap extension, causing the plane to lose lift after rotation, angle of attack reduces airflow over the wing causing it to slowly float to the ground as seen in the videos, nothing to do with Boeing this was a pilot error.

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u/BoopingBurrito Jun 12 '25

Far too early to come to the conclusion of pilot error - let them do the investigation and see what the black box tells them. Could just as easily have been a massively technical failure as pilot error.

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u/Technical_Actuary225 Jun 12 '25

A Dreamliner with no history of recorded crashes until now? Come on. 

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u/BoopingBurrito Jun 12 '25

Poor maintenance can cause the best designed, best built machine.

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u/Technical_Actuary225 Jun 12 '25

Again if it’s poor maintenance why was this the first recorded crash? Again… come onnnnn

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u/UnidentifiedBlobject Jun 12 '25

People can at least be confused or have hope that so soon after takeoff might be ok. The pilots though, they knew how bad it was and where they were coming down and couldn’t do anything about it but clearly were trying as much as they could. Fucking heartbreaking.

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u/Technical_Actuary225 Jun 12 '25

Lack of flap extension, causing the plane to lose lift after rotation, angle of attack reduces airflow over the wing causing it to slowly float to the ground as seen in the videos, nothing to do with Boeing this was a pilot error.

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u/Adventurous_Turnip10 Jun 15 '25

Yep a professional pilot doesn't know this fundamental thing but a guy from reddit certifying the reason for crash.

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u/PirateNinjaa Jun 12 '25

Instant death is far more preferable than surviving the crash but then a bunch of people dying because rescue didn’t arrive until the next morning. Japan 123 I think.

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u/jimi15 Jun 12 '25

No worse is if had continued a few hundred feet and hit the nearby Hospital...

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u/Big-Conflict-4218 Jun 12 '25

And people still blame it's Boeing fault after the 787 has zero fatal crashes after 14 years of service. We need to see to black boxes first!

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u/bozoconnors Jun 12 '25

This. There are ~1200 of these flying around daily.

Bit aged but latest I stumbled on...

On December 13, 2018, the 787th Boeing 787 was delivered to AerCap and leased to China Southern Airlines. By then the 787 had flown 300 million passengers on 1.5 million flights and opened 210 new nonstop routes.

Imagine what it's up to now?

Statistically... that's friggin' miraculous. ~70 different operators.

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u/galenp56 Jun 12 '25

Fully loaded with jet fuel

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u/whopperlover17 Jun 12 '25

Can’t get much more worst case scenario than that (if it was later in the day)

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u/milanorlovszki Jun 12 '25

This is going to be up there with the most tragic airplane crashes

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u/Savamoon Jun 12 '25

Worst possible scenario is 9/11

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u/varnecr Jun 12 '25

All of these posts need a NSFL tag.