Air India Plane Crash In Ahmedabad: Following an Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, on Thursday afternoon, Boeing Company stock futures were indicating a steep over 6% decline in the pre-market session.
Boeing is a multinational corporation with headquarters in the United States that designs, builds, and markets aircraft, rotorcraft, rockets, satellites, and missiles all over the world.
Pre-market data showed that Boeing Company shares were indicating a 6.54% decline at $200.00 per share. Slightly below its 52-week high of $218.8 per share, the stock had settled at $214 on Wednesday. The company’s total market value was nearly $161.36 billion. The Boeing Company claims that this is the first crash involving its Dreamliner B-787.
Boeing Plane Crash In Ahmedabad
According to the DGCA, Air India flight AI 171, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, crashed into a Meghani Nagar residential area on June 12, 2025, just after taking off from Ahmedabad at 1:38 PM. About five minutes after departure, the crash happened.
After learning of the Air India plane crash, Rammohan Naidu, the minister of civil aviation, hurried to Ahmedabad. Post the tragedy, the Ahmedabad airport operations to be suspended.
Domestic Stock Market
Alongside weak global market trends and rising Middle East tensions, benchmark indices, the Sensex and Nift,y fell 1% on Thursday. The 30-share BSE Sensex ended the day at 81,691.98 after falling 823.16 points, or 1%. It fell 991.98 points, or 1.20 per cent, to 81,523.16 during the day.
At 24,888.20, the wider NSE Nifty fell 253.20 points, or 1.01 per cent. Traders said that fresh outflows of foreign funds also hurt investor sentiment.
Among the largest laggards among the Sensex companies were Tata Motors, Titan, Eternal, Power Grid, Tata Steel, Larsen & Toubro, Mahindra & Mahindra, and Hindustan Unilever.