Flight to London Gatwick crashes at Ahmedabad airport

Sky news saying it may have come down in a civilian area

Good point. Details are sketchy atm (understandably) but ye it's a densely populated area. Looks like one building involved was under construction.

Wouldn't recommend going to Twitter for any info, just clicked on one horrifying video from the scene. Won't be looking again.

The data on FR24 is patchy to say the least. However, it does not show any backtrack to the end of the runway — and this can be clearly seen in the tracks from the same flight over the last few days.

This may be end up being the deadliest accidental crash in history. The plane would have had full tanks of aviation fuel and that seems to have caused the massive fireball.

Flight path for take off seems to be in the direction of the city itself which is one of the largest in India with 8m inhabitants

Really feel for anyone affected by this.

I didn't read here first and see your post, wish I had, absolutely horrific photos on twitter of the crash site. They need to take it all down but I doubt they will. I highly recommend you do not look at twitter right now.

They confirmed it backtracked and used the full length of the 11 thousand odd feet long runway

Can't really see because of the hut in the way but, a runway overrun and FOD ingestion could be plausible given the amount of dust kicked up to the left. The RAT being deployed means something caused a loss of thrust on both engines. Whatever the cause, it's a terrible tragedy.

Slightly better resolution (480p). Still blurry though.

Actually, just saw a hi-res image from Farnborough of a 787 rapid ascent take off, and even there, with flaps set, it is hard to tell. With such grainy images from AI171, we should reserve judgement.

That is insane and extremely sad.

Looks like speculation is being allowed here, so engine failure and crew immediately **** down the good engine, with zero to back that up apart from pure sick speculation.

Speculation?? is it ok with you sir if we can give our observations of what we see in the video?

Of course you can, but what are you seeing in that video? Flaps UP = Configuration warning system on the CAS and also aural warnings. So can you really really tell the difference between FLAPS 0 and 5 from that video?