Air India Plane Crash Claims Over 200 Lives in Tragic Incident

On June 12, 2025, an Air India flight tragically crashed shortly after takeoff, leading to the loss of more than 200 lives. The ill-fated Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner was on its way from Ahmedabad, India, to London Gatwick when it went down, leaving only one survivor reported by the end of the day.

While air travel remains one of the safest modes of transportation, incidents involving large passenger planes tend to have significant casualties. This disaster joins a grim history of notable aviation tragedies over the past twenty years. For instance, in January 2025, a regional passenger jet collided with a U.S. Army helicopter in Washington, D.C., resulting in 67 fatalities as it plunged into the Potomac River. Prior to that, in December 2024, a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 crash-landed in South Korea, claiming the lives of 179 individuals, making it the worst air disaster in the nation in recent times. Furthermore, a China Eastern Airlines flight in March 2022 met a tragic fate when it crashed en route from Kunming to Guangzhou, killing all 132 passengers aboard.

As investigations into this latest disaster unfold, it raises questions about safety protocols and the challenges faced by the aviation industry in maintaining its record as a preferred means of transport amid rare but catastrophic failures.