A stark warning made by a Boeing whistleblower has resurfaced after a London-bound passenger plane crashed in Ahmedabad, India.
The Air India plane, carrying 242 passengers and crew members, took off at 1.38pm local time only to begin plummeting 30 seconds later.
The Boeing 787 hit the top floor of a medical college a mile southwest of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport before crashing.
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Air India said that the plane’s passengers and crew members included 169 Indians, 53 British citizens, seven Portuguese nationals and one Canadian.
Just one person, British national Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, is believed to have survived.
Footage showed the 787, also called a Dreamliner, skid as it went down, damaging buildings before bursting into flames.
Up to 80 students were inside the dining hall on the top floor of BJ Medical College when the plane hit, killing five people.
It was not immediately clear why the plane crashed, with air accident officials from Britain travelling to support their Indian counterparts.
Sam Salehpour, an engineer at Boeing for over a decade, alleged last year that Boeing ‘took shortcuts’ while manufacturing the wide-body jet to speed up production.
The whistleblower claimed that the 787’s fuselage, the aircraft’s body, could break apart mid-flight after thousands of trips.
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