Air India plane crash | Pilots gave frantic Mayday calls to Ahmedabad ATC before crash

New Delhi, 12/6:  “Mayday, Mayday, Mayday,” pilots of Air India’s ill-fated ‘Dreamliner’ aircraft headed to London screamed to the Air Traffic Controllers minutes after it took off for London’s Gatwick airport from Ahmedabad.

The frantic efforts of the ATCs to reach the pilots – Captain Sumeet Sabharwal and First Officer Clive Kundar – did not fructify and within minutes the Boeing-787 aircraft crashed into a building outside the airport perimeter