Disaster in the Skies: Human Failure or Technical Failure?
he aircraft, carrying 169 Indian, 53 British, seven Portuguese, and one Canadian national, issued a Mayday call seconds after departing at 1:39 p.m. IST, but communication ceased abruptly. Flightradar24 data shows the plane reached just 625 feet before plummeting into Meghani Nagar’s residential area, erupting into a fireball fueled by 125,000 liters of jet fuel.