Air India Flight AI171 crashed in Ahmedabads Meghani Nagar after issuing a MAYDAY call. Learn what a MAYDAY call means in aviation, why its critical, and the latest on the DGCAs investigation into the tragic incident involving 242 passengers.

In a recorded statement from Ahmedabad, the Air India CEO said that he has assured the government that the carrier is "committed to full cooperation with those working on the ground and through the investigations".

The mayday word was conceived as a distress call in the early 1920s by Frederick Stanley Mockford, officer-in-charge of radio at Croydon Airport, England. The word was derived from the French word m'aider, which means "come and help me".

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The Express understands that the last words heard over the radio during a Mayday call that Air Traffic Control did not have time to respond to were "engine failure". The flight crashed seconds later,

An Air India flight carrying 242 people crashed minutes after takeoff from Ahmedabad, triggering a nationwide emergency response and suspension of airport operations.

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The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) has confirmed the recovery of the Digital Flight Data Recorder (DFDR), commonly referred to as the black box, from the rooftop of a building at the site of the Air India Flight AI-171 crash in Ahmedabad.