{"id":244480,"date":"2025-07-01T10:26:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T00:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=244480"},"modified":"2025-07-01T10:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T00:26:07","slug":"astonishing-claim-in-air-india-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=244480","title":{"rendered":"Astonishing claim in Air India crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Investigators are probing whether the Air India crash which killed 260 people was caused by sabotage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Boeing 787 Dreamliner slammed into a medical college after both engines appeared to fail moments after take-off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All but one of the 242 passengers, including 52 Brits, and crew died with Vishwash Ramesh, 40, the only one to survive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another 19 people were killed on the ground in Ahmedabad and the Indian government has now revealed that air investigators are considering sabotage as a possible cause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India\u2019s Minister of State for Civil Aviation Murlidhar Mohol said: \u201cThe Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) has begun a full investigation. It is being probed from all angles, including any possible sabotage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-1-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-244482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-1-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-1-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-1-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-1.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>(Wreckage showing the tail section of the Air India Boeing 787-8after it slammed into a medical college. Picture: Punit Paranjpe\/AFP<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although there has previously been speculation of potential sabotage, this is the first time officials have formally acknowledged it as a possible cause of the crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pilot of Air India 171, Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, 55, frantically radioed air traffic control moments after take-off on June 12 to yell: \u201cNo thrust \u2026 May Day \u2026 May Day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both engines appeared to have lost power \u2013 an incredibly rare occurrence described by experts as a \u201cone in a billion event\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-244481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>All but one of the 242 passengers were killed. Picture: Vijay Patani \/ AFP<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the AAIB is now looking into whether it was caused by fuel contamination as a result of a deliberate act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investigators are probing whether the Air India crash which killed 260 people was caused by sabotage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":244483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4048,548,17055,35],"tags":[17271,4915],"class_list":["post-244480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aaib","category-air-india","category-air-india-flight-171","category-breaking-news","tag-boeing-787-dreamliner","tag-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244484,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244480\/revisions\/244484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/244483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}