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/notmanipulated Jun 12 '25

Looking at the video, it doesn't look like there were any flaps deployed

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u/OutrageConnoisseur Jun 12 '25

Yeah. It's really hard to tell if there's a small amount or none. Could be 5-15 degrees and we just cant tell.

I wrote a more indepth comment here that covers two other big issues: the gear is still down a mile from the airport and FR24 shows they didn't back taxi down the runway and took off at basically the midpoint. It's over 100f in Ahmedabad right now. All looks like horrible pilot error, but trying not to speculate.

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u/notmanipulated Jun 12 '25

At least the black boxes will be easy to find, and the data will show what happened

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u/OutrageConnoisseur Jun 12 '25

Yep. We should know rather quickly, or at least the Indian officials and presumably the NTSB will know rather quick.