{"id":72393,"date":"2025-06-14T20:31:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T11:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/14\/air-india-captain-sent-mayday-less-than-minute-before-crash-say-authorities"},"modified":"2025-06-15T00:27:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T15:27:06","slug":"air-india-captain-sent-mayday-less-than-minute-before-crash-say-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72393","title":{"rendered":"Air India captain sent mayday less than minute before crash, say authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aviation ministry says Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner reached height of 650ft before rapidly descending and hitting ground 2km from airport<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMayday, mayday,\u201d was the final radio message sent by the pilot of the Air India 171 flight bound for London, moments before it crashed to the ground, killing more than 270 people.<\/p>\n<p>In a briefing by India\u2019s aviation authorities on Saturday, authorities confirmed that Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, who was piloting the flight, sent a distress call to air traffic control less a minute <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/13\/boeing-experts-uk-us-aviation-officials-join-air-india-crash-investigation-ahmedabad-flight-171-\">after it took off from Ahmedabad airport at 1.39pm<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/14\/air-india-captain-sent-mayday-less-than-minute-before-crash-say-authorities\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aviation ministry says Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner reached height of 650ft before rapidly descending and hitting ground 2km from airport\u201cMayday, mayday,\u201d was the final radio message sent by the pilot of the Air India 171 flight bound for London, moments be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4804,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3341,376,62,931,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-india-ahmedabad-plane-crash","category-air-transport","category-india","category-plane-crashes","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4804"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72400,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72393\/revisions\/72400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}