Eyewitness Recalls Air India Crash Horror | Ahmedabad Crash | Air India Plane Air India flight AI 171, en route to London’s Gatwick, crashed shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad International Airport on June 12,

“I was at home when we heard a massive sound,” one local resident told the Press Trust of India. “When we went out to see what had happened, there was a layer of thick smoke in the air. When we came here, dead bodies and debris from the crashed aircraft were scattered all over.”