Air India flight 171 crashed in Ahmedabad, in west India, according to USA TODAY. The plane was a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner with 242 passengers and crew members bound for London's Gatwick airport.

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Air India Flight AI171 is far from the first commercial aircraft to crash where only one person has survived. Since 1960, more than a dozen people have miraculously been the sole survivors of ...