Air India Flight 171 had been airborne for just 11 seconds when a routine take-off suddenly became an irrecoverable disaster.

Thursday's accident was the deadliest air disaster in the world since July 2014 when a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot down by a missile over Ukraine ...

A version of this article appears in print on June 16, 2025, Section A, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: 2 Indian Pilots, A Mayday Call And Mourning.

One passenger survived. There were 230 passengers and 12 crew members onboard the aircraft. They included 169 Indian nationals, 53 Britons, seven Portuguese citizens and one Canadian, Air India said.