There is not a single person in the campus, who doesn't look up at the sky each time a flight takes off," said Dr Dwisha Poptani, a second-year resident at the Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Medical College and Hospital, who was on duty at the post-mortem centre on June 12, 2025, when a Boeing 787 Dreamliner AI171 crashed 36 seconds after its take off from the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad.
The 787 crashed right into the hostel blocks of the college, where students were having their lunch at 1.39 pm, leaving 19 students dead, and 67 with major injuries, while 241 out of the 242 on board the flight perished in the crash.
While the debris of the plane has been removed, and all those involved in the crash were accounted for, and their bodies handed over to their families after DNA testing, the affected structures still stand, a living reminder of the tragedy.
"I wasn't on campus during the incident, so I didn't know the extent of the damage. A few days after the crash, they let us inside the building to take out a few things. That's when we saw that the structure was completely charred," said Jeet Trivedi, a third-year student.
Out of the 19 students who died, many were friends or acquaintances of Trivedi. "Just a day before the crash, my mother had called me and told me to come home because she felt something was wrong, so I got to know about the crash was from friends, who forwarded videos of the incident."
Trivedi continued, "The videos which I saw were from a very close angle of the building, and were very disturbing. A friend of mine didn't go to the canteen as he was sleeping at the time of the crash, which saved him, but not everyone was lucky. As I am the representative of my class, I kept getting calls about whose body was found and who wasn't, and I was in contact with all of their parents."
11/06/2026 Madhulika Ram Kavattur/Mid Day
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