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Some news outlets are indicating that there are some survivors: https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/air-india-dreamliner-cras...

> Several injured passengers have been evacuated from the scene and transported to local hospitals.

Edit: The BBC is reporting local police as saying: "There appears to be no survivors" https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c8d1r3m8z92t?post=asset%3A8731...

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It crashed through the dorms of a medical college. The injured must be from there. Unlikely anyone on the plane survived.

Edit: Looks like 1 guy from the plane made it.

It hit a medical facility of some sort - student doctors etc, so maybe also be on ground injured

Most likely bystanders who got injured.

You ain’t walking away from a fully fueled aircraft crashing unfortunately…

Crazier things have happened. It would not be shocking if a couple of people survived.

Indeed. There were survivors from that horrific Korean flight that crashed into the concrete wall.

Isn't it possible to eject the fuel / fuel tank if crash is imminent?

That takes at least 10 minutes, and more like 30+ on a large plane like the B787.

Source: https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1456931

Sure, if you don't want your wings anymore. The wings are the primary fuel tanks. You can drain the fuel out during flight but the process can take hours.

Ah, the old “Wings Stay On/Wings Fall Off” button.

There is a fuel drain button, it's just slow. Google "fuel jettison". Sometimes you have to make an emergency descent and the plane is too heavy (or too dangerous to carry so much fuel). From the ground it would look like "chemtrails". You can look up videos of this on YouTube.

No.

Some aircraft allow fuel dumps but it is a slow process and done at higher elevation relative to the ground.

That would create a trolley problem dilemma of its own, especially over populated areas.

The plane crashed shortly after takeoff in a populated area. Dropping 100 tons of fuel or tanks on buildings is not good.

Large jets can usually dump fuel but this is something that takes time. It's sometimes used in less urgent situations where the plane can still fly safely, like a landing gear malfunction or single engine failure.

Now I'm picturing a plane ejecting its wings and somehow sticking the lawn dart landing.

This guy did: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3v6drp96zo

holy shit. relatively unscathed at that. I retract my statement obviously.

he must've been thrown out at just the right angle to not hit too much along the way...

B.S. how do you walk away from that? This is some frankly humiliating reporting by BBC

Oddly they concatenate his names just as it appears in the passenger manifest (which airlines often do). But that’s not his name.

What do you mean that's not his name?

They concatenated the first name & middle name i think.

His name is Vishwash Kumar Ramesh. But, like an odd game of telephone or something, many news sites are displaying his name as Vishwashkumar Ramesh. And it seems the error is due to the passenger manifest. Airlines often combine first and middle names. It’s odd for news sites to not notice the error. Especially when also naming the brother who has a similarly-constructed name (Nayan Kumar Ramesh and also the deceased brother/passenger Ajay Kumar Ramesh). It’s probably due to western unfamiliarity of the Indian name. (They wouldn’t make the error with a Davidwilliam).

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