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|An Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner with 242 passengers and crew crashes at Ahmedabad | The London Gatwick-bound aircraft crashed into a Medical College hostel within seconds after takeoff, caught fire and split | The 787 seemed to have difficulty in getting power and fell from a height of 650 feet | Initial reports indicated around 100 dead but more casualties feared | Casualties of some doctors and medical students on ground were also reported | Massive rescue ops are on | The 787 is a sophisticated Fly by Wire, big, twin engine sophisticated aircraft | Cockpit Voice Recorder, CVR, of the Ill-fated Air India flight AI 171 also recovered | Boeing 787’s Black Box, which records all the operational parameters of an aircraft, was recovered soon after the accident | These two recorders will reveal whatever happened in the final moments of the flight, technical or human error | The 787 fell down 38 seconds after takeoff as both its engines gave no thrust and lift | Boeing 787 is an advanced technology fly by wire, electronics operated, wide body, spacious, twin engine aircraft | The Ahmedabad crash is the first of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, some 1,100 of which are flying globally

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