Union Minister and Gujarat BJP President C.R. Patil confirmed that former Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani was among those onboard the ill-fated Air India Flight AI-171 that crashed in Ahmedabad. Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu said, 'I am completely shocked by this tragic and horrific incident.' With 242 onboard, the crash has triggered a massive rescue operation. Authorities have assured a full and fair investigation into the cause.
Category
š
NewsTranscript
00:00We also have to go to this flight in this flight.
00:11We also have to be thankful for this flight.
00:14We also have to be thankful for this flight.
00:21I am totally shaken by the incident that has happened today near Ahmedabad airport.
00:42Very tragic and very very horrific and even till now I have to say I am in a state of
00:50shock.
00:51I was when the event happened I was in Vijaywada doing the review of that airport and attending
00:57one state program but the moment I got to know this incident happened I wanted to be
01:02here physically at the site try to find out more about what happened and what needs to
01:07be done and also honorable PM has called me and also told me to be there at the site and
01:13also look into the operations which is going on right now and right now if you ask me I
01:18can only think about the passengers their families what they might be going through and especially
01:26the civilians also who are there near the crash site.
01:29A lot of relief effort has been done already right from Indian Army, NDRF, state police,
01:39medical departments including aviation concern departments everyone has attended immediately
01:44the fire department to the best of their abilities they have been functioning here and doing
01:49the rescue operations and we still have to find out the numbers I don't want to put any
01:55wrong numbers to you so we still have to go through the numbers and my condolences my
02:03prayers my thoughts with the families of the bereaved and we are trying to extend all the
02:08help that can be done and even our honorable home minister is also coming to inspect the
02:14site right now he will be coming here we will go through another round of inspection we will
02:20talk to some of the people who are here and all the teams that are here and then we are
02:24having one meeting at the circuit house so we will be discussing some more things there
02:32maybe once we go through all these discussions I can give you some more information but if
02:37you ask me then I am just thinking about the families and the passengers who are there it's
02:42a great loss.
02:44Yes yes it is very sad to know that Vijay Rupaniji chief minister was also there and like you are
02:56mentioning other nationals were also there children were also there I would only say that each and
03:02every life is precious to us each and everyone is a very important person to us so it's an
03:07incident which has shaken the nation also everyone has expressed their grief.
03:12Sir how seriously does this deal take this deal because it is a deal with such technology
03:17that is one of your big questions.
03:19Yes I will only give one line to what you have asked right now we are going to do a fair and
03:26thorough investigation we are not going to spare anyone we are not going to leave any
03:32stone unturned we will do properly according to the protocol and we are going to go to
03:36the depth of why this incident has happened that much I can tell you now.
03:44for you.
03:48You