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Dreamliner Crash in Ahmedabad: Air India flight 171

Fear of Landing

It certainly lifts off slowly; however, it was hot and the Boeing would have been heavy with a full load of passengers packed for travel to the UK and fuel for the nine-hour flight. As per ATC, the aircraft departed from Ahmedabad at 1339 IST (0809 UTC) from Runway 23. However, this theory is more dubious.

Runway 121