Name: What could have caused Air India plane to crash in 30 seconds? | BBC News India
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The plane, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, takes off from Ahmedabad Airport at 13:38 local time, bound for London Gatwick.

Tracking website Flight Radar 24 shows the last location of flight tracking data at 625 feet altitude here.

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We showed experts the footage who say that the plane appears to be pitching up to try to gain altitude.

And you can see its landing gear is down, when normally it would be retracted within 10 to 15 seconds of flight.

The crash site and its aftermath is just over 1 and 1/2 kilometers from the end of the runway.

The tail of the plane is lodged in a building here.

It's part of the BJ Medical College. It's on the site of a hospital complex. At least 50 medical students have been taken to hospital.

We know where this is because we've matched these buildings and aftermath to publicly available photos from the scene.

The Dreamliner 787-8 has been in operation with Air India since 2014.

For some reason, enough lift wasn't being generated to keep the aircraft climbing.

That's usually associated with not enough thrust for some reason or another, um, but more than stating that would would be to to get into the realms of speculation.

Some experts told BBC Verify the plane's wing flaps didn't appear to be extended, which could be a factor which led to the crash.

Others say the video quality makes it too hard to tell.

The investigators will certainly look at the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder to determine if those flaps and slats were not extended or whether they were.

If it appeared to be an airplane issue or if it was a pilot issue and failure to set the flaps and slats when they should have.

Now, investigators will hope to find the black box amongst the wreckage to piece together what happened.