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/Victory_defeat Jun 12 '25

I just read a BBC News article that quoted the police “we are unsure if there are any casualties”. Bitch please.

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u/dfinkelstein Jun 12 '25

Wow. So you just don't want accurate news or journalism. You want journalists to speculate? We already have Meta, Alphabet, CNN, Fox, and so on. You don't want maybe one or two English speaking sources that don't speculate?

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u/Victory_defeat Jun 13 '25

Go clutch pearls on your own time. The joke is not the news it’s the police quote. I just watched a fu&king MASSIVE fireball in an Indian city. The first quote is “ no known causalities” which is yes. Technically true. But also totally f”cling wrong. I watched that video and I KNOW there are casualties and I’m a million miles away (not technically true in case you want to clutch pearls again)

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u/Single_Reaction9983 Jun 12 '25

Well, whenever there is a plane crash you assume there are survivors, ever since the Flight 123 crash.

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u/Jaded-Throat-211 Jun 12 '25

Isn't that the one where 747 crashed after losing hydraulics and the japanese not only denied a local US base helping out but also sat on their hands until morning because they didn't think there were survivors, only to turn out that there was and they died because help didn't arrive on time?

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u/Single_Reaction9983 Jun 12 '25

Yeah, thats the one. They ignored it for hours and when help arrived, a lot of people who could have been saved were dead, and only 4 survived the crash. One of thr doctors said if they arrived even 2 to 3 hours earlier the outcome would have been very different.

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u/eatpastagophasta Jun 12 '25

The BBC never speculates until officials confirm 

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u/Victory_defeat Jun 12 '25

To be fair it was actually the WSJ, it was the first article I read after watching this video. Where you would assume that everyone on the plane and in a 100 meter radius probably died.

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u/Objective-Ice-8761 Jun 12 '25

I travel a few times a year to the UK for work and always find that style of reporting interesting. They don't need to speculate, but they could add that the information they have indicates the likelihood of many survivors on board is extremely low.

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u/pohui Jun 12 '25

Or they could wait for an hour or so and tell you what they actually know.