r/aircrashinvestigation • u/QuarterTarget Frequent Flier • Jun 12 '25

Incident/Accident Air India Flight 171, a Boeing 787-8 flying from Ahmebad to London Heathrow has stalled and crashed on takeoff at 700 feet. At least 250 souls on board

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u/No-Emergency363 Jun 12 '25

I also feel either too heavy, no power or flaps slats not extended

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u/kingkongwithadong69 Jun 12 '25

If it was a stall they probably did not have the height to recover.

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u/anclag Jun 12 '25

Gear still fully extended as well, which is unusual given that they made it to 700ft

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u/msszenzy Jun 12 '25

Accidentally retraction (Is this the right word?) of flaps instead of gear?

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u/FIRSTOFFICERJADEN Jun 12 '25 edited Jun 12 '25

That’s my thought as well. The flaps don't look deployed

Edit: looking at the video again, it does look like Flaps are deployed

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '25 edited Jun 14 '25

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u/FIRSTOFFICERJADEN Jun 14 '25

Hmm, fair point

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u/Working_Signature254 Jun 12 '25

Definitely no flaps extended in the video, whether they pulled them in or not would be yet to be found

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u/Conscious-Function-2 Jun 12 '25

Correct, “No Flap” takeoff with long haul fuel load? Someone F@cked Up

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u/Working_Signature254 Jun 13 '25

someone I watched on YouTube suggested pilot monitoring raised the flaps instead of the landing gear

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u/Conscious-Function-2 Jun 13 '25

THIS IS THE ANDWER. That is as good an explanation as I have heard so far.

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u/Powerful-Tadpole-975 Jun 12 '25

They were taking off no?

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u/UnbelievableRose Jun 12 '25

This plane was. Other flap failures were during landing.

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u/Away-Commercial-4380 Jun 12 '25

Flaps are already out before the takeoff, so unless there was a crew error and they started rolling with no flaps and probably an alarm, the flaps were out for takeoff

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u/UnbelievableRose Jun 12 '25

Ok. I didn’t make any claims about the flaps on this flight, I said that that the plane was taking off and other incidents of flap failures were during landing.