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Re:Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more... by ihuk on Thursday June 12, 2025 @07:27AM (#44256390)
There's a better, longer video on Reddit. At the beginning of the video, it sounds like the Ram Air Turbine (RAT) is deployed, which would suggest a dual engine failure.
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Re:Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more... by Simon_O_Rourke on Thursday June 12, 2025 @07:30AM (#44256417)
Dual engine failure with a stall right at the end as it's going in.

Guessing it's either a foreign object ingested into both engines, probably a bird strike, or fuel starvation.

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Re:Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more... by ihuk on Thursday June 12, 2025 @07:39AM (#44256480)
Here's a Reddit video: https://www.reddit.com/r/ahmedabad/comments/1l9i1ga/om_shant...

And here's a YouTube video showing a Ram Air Turbine (RAT) being deployed on a 787 for comparison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFBCGf50Trc&t=69s

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Re:Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more... by Simon_O_Rourke on Thursday June 12, 2025 @08:46AM (#44257137)
I'm assuming the Ram Air Turbine gives extra evidence of a dual engine failure (or at least the engine that generated power). Engine spools down, power is lost, air turbine needs to be deployed.
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Re:Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more... by ihuk on Thursday June 12, 2025 @10:13AM (#44258067)
Yeah, I believe the RAT is automatically deployed when both engines fail or when there's a critical loss of pressure in the hydraulic systems.
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Re:Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more... by ExoticPearTree on Thursday June 12, 2025 @09:29AM (#44257570)
I don't see the RAT deployed on the video on Reddit. Can you tell the timestamp to zoom in? I'm super curious.
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Re:Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more... by consp on Thursday June 12, 2025 @10:01AM (#44257924)
Those things are tiny and very transparent (since it's pretty much a propeller) and video compression, plus it's a video of a screen, will eat it up against a clear sky.
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Re:Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more... by ihuk on Thursday June 12, 2025 @10:05AM (#44257979)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GtPFDrnbAAA6c68?format=jpg&name=...

It could be the blurry object under the fuselage, just to the right of the left engine.

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Re:Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more... by ExoticPearTree on Friday June 13, 2025 @08:42AM (#44267993)
From another video, the RAT on the 787 is on the right.

New videos came out and so far the prevailing theory is that flaps were retracted too soon. Most likely instead of gear up.

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