Passenger films TVs, A/C not working on doomed Air India flight

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An Air India passenger shared stunning video of the doomed plane’s TV monitors and air conditioning not working one trip before it crashed on the next flight shortly after takeoff Thursday.

There was one survivor of the Ahmedabad crash as at least 240 people died aboard the Boeing aircraft that departed for London Gatwick Airport after 1 p.m. local time.

Akash Vatsa said on social media that he was on a previous flight from Delhi to Ahmedabad and showed proof by sharing his Air India boarding pass online.

“I was in the same damn flight 2 hours before it took off from AMD,” Vatsa wrote on the X platform alongside photos of the Dreamliner 787 and videos of the conditions inside the plane.

Vatsa said he noticed “unusual things” on the flight.

“We are almost about to taxi, but A/C is not working,” he said in one video as some passengers are seen using in-flight magazines to cool themselves off.

“And, as usual, your TV screens are also not working,” he added, as he tapped the monitors and remote.

Vatsa said Air India is considered one of the worst airlines in the world for passenger comfort and in-flight entertainment.

He flipped his camera’s video onto himself to point out that he was “sweating like hell.”

“I don’t know why I booked this flight again,” the exasperated passenger said.

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Vatsa told India’s NDTV that, because the flight number was changed, “passengers with a connecting flight to London had to deboard, come to the departure gate and had to board again.”

Shortly after takeoff, videos taken from CCTV cameras and shared online show the plane began to slowly descend until it crashed into a medical college building and exploded into a ball of fire.