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🗓️ 13 June 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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An investigation is underway into the crash of Air India flight AI-171, which went down shortly after take-off from Ahmedabad. Also: scientists discover a previously unknown species of dinosaur in Mongolia.
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0:00.0 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
0:06.1 | I'm Charles Haverland, and in the early hours of Friday the 13th of June, India has confirmed |
0:11.9 | that only one of the 242 people on board its flight that crashed into a doctor's hostel in |
0:18.4 | Ahmedabad has survived. |
0:24.1 | Also in this podcast. |
0:29.0 | Looking at it, started to realize that it was actually kind of a very important specimen because it represented an ancestor to some of those gigantic apex predators that we would |
0:33.9 | see appear later in time like T-Rex. |
0:36.5 | Scientists have discovered a previously unknown species of dinosaur |
0:40.3 | after delving into a fossil collection in a Mongolian museum. |
0:47.8 | Air India has confirmed that all but one of the 242 people on board its flight that crashed in Ahmedabad were killed. |
0:56.9 | The sole survivor is being treated in hospital. |
1:00.5 | The Boeing Dreamliner 787 was bound for London when it crashed on Thursday into a medical |
1:06.1 | college hostel shortly after takeoff. |
1:08.8 | It's believed local doctors were having a meal at the time of the accident |
1:12.3 | and it's feared there are also many casualties on the ground. |
1:16.6 | Our correspondent in India, Davina Gupta, followed the day's events. |
1:22.1 | Around 1.30pm local time, an Air India Dreamliner lifting off from Ahmedabad Airport, heading for London. |
1:33.2 | 30 seconds later, a deafening sound, flames in a cloud of black smoke as the airliner came down in a heavily populated residential area of the city. |
1:43.8 | An eyewitness described what happened. |
1:47.3 | I was sitting at home. |
1:48.9 | There was a loud noise here. |
1:49.9 | It felt like an earthquake. |
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