He said the “situation went out of control for a brief spell of 10 to 15 minutes.” Passengers jostle to board a train at the railway station in New Delhi, India, on Feb.15, 2025.

The aircraft had arrived in Ahmedabad from Indian capital New Delhi about three hours earlier and was taking off as flight AI-171 for London when it crashed. According to air traffic control at ...

An Air India plane carrying 242 passengers and crew members crashed in Ahmedabad, India, shortly after taking off for London Gatwick Airport on Thursday, the airline said. New Delhi INDIA ...

A version of this article appears in print on June 16, 2025, Section B, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: Before Crash, Overhaul Of Air India Was in Works.

New Delhi brutally suppressed mass protests that erupted in 1989 in response to its rigging of elections in Jammu and Kashmir, India’s lone Muslim-majority state.