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.