The Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, en route to London’s Gatwick Airport, crashed within five minutes of taking off from Ahmedabad’s Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport. It was under the command of Captain Sumeet Sabharwal along with First Officer Clive Kundar, with a combined flying experience of 9,300 hours, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said on Thursday.
As the plane plunged at a rate of 475 feet per minute from 625 feet, the pilots had less than a minute to react before it eventually crashed and exploded near the Ahmedabad airport.
