“The whole sky was filled with black smoke,” Eyewitness recounts Air India crash horror

Ahmedabad, (Gujarat), June 14, 2025 (ANI): The Air India flight AI 171 bound for London's Gatwick crashed shortly after it took off from the Ahmedabad International Airport on June 12, 2025. The airline said 241 people on board the aircraft were killed in the mishap. Rekha Kshtriya, an eyewitness, recounted "... Around 1.30 PM, we heard a loud noise. Although we are accustomed to hearing loud noises, this time, it felt like our eardrums would burst. It seemed like an earthquake. Our house, our dining table, everything was shaking violently. The sound seemed like that of a bomb blast. Then we went outside and learned a plane had crashed... We saw broken pieces of the aircraft spread everywhere. The whole sky was filled with black smoke. High flames were rising everywhere..."