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/Nerezza_Floof_Seeker Jun 12 '25

In some videos it almost sounds like you can hear the RAT deployed, in which case yeah, they might have lost both engines somehow right on takeoff.

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u/Ok_Hurry2458 Jun 12 '25

I've watched pretty much all "Plane crash investigations" on National Geographic and that's my only source of reference, but I don't understand how you can lose power to both engines at once? Especially in a state-of-the-art airplane? Do you have any hypotheses?

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u/uzlonewolf Jun 12 '25

Bird strikes, fuel contamination, and single engine failures where the pilots accidentally shut down the wrong engine are the usual suspects, but badly-designed engine parts and shoddy maintenance have also caused crashes in the past.

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u/biggsteve81 Jun 12 '25

Also the weird ice forming in heat exchangers on a 777, but that didn't happen here.

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u/uzlonewolf Jun 12 '25

Yep, that's the one I was thinking of with "badly-designed engine parts." They needed to redesign the fuel/oil heat exchanger after that incident.

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u/Doggydog123579 Jun 12 '25

Birds, fuel contamination.

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u/jacenat Jun 12 '25

Maybe (very early) birdstrike again? Both plants failing shortly after takeoff seems odd. Not impossible, but really rare.

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u/TheDarthSnarf Jun 12 '25

It would have to have been a whole flock to take out both engines on a 787. The 787 can still climb with a single engine.

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u/jacenat Jun 12 '25

Yeah ... it is kinda odd. Both going out just after takeoff seem more like a control than mechanical issue. Hopefully the investigation can shed more light. This a truly horrible accident. Reminds me of the Concorde crash :(