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Re:Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more... by CPLX on Thursday June 12, 2025 @09:29AM (#44257571)
Do you have a link to that footage? I've seen speculation on this from very blurry video but nothing like proof.

On the professional pilot forums the consensus guess is inadvertent flap retraction, instead of gear retraction, leading to inability to climb.

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Re:Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more... by cschmatzler on Thursday June 12, 2025 @09:57AM (#44257886)
A 787 can still climb with flaps up and two healthy engines. In the video that was posted everywhere, you can CLEARLY hear the RAT spin, which gets deployed automatically when both engines go out.
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Re:Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more... by CPLX on Thursday June 12, 2025 @12:54PM (#44259936)
> A 787 can still climb with flaps up and two healthy engines

Not at takeoff weight with the gear down, this sentence is incorrect.

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Re:Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more... by ortusdux on Thursday June 12, 2025 @10:54AM (#44258534)
Reddit link - https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1l9no7u/...
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Re:Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more... by rurban on Thursday June 12, 2025 @03:05PM (#44261784)
Or birds hitting both engines. But that must have been a big flock then
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Re:Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more... by CPLX on Thursday June 12, 2025 @03:38PM (#44262242)
It's unlikely that a bird strike with dual engine failure would occur without smoke.
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