Arpit Nayak
Encyclopædia Britannica Editor
Arpit Nayak is an associate editor at Encyclopedia Britannica. He has a background in business journalism and stock market news, and has a degree in English literature from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He also runs a small community-led cultural society in his hometown of Shillong and dabbles in graphic design and photography.
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Air India flight 171, flight of a passenger airliner that crashed on June 12, 2025, in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, claiming the lives of 241 of the 242 people on board, and more than two dozen people on the ground. Headed for London’s Gatwick Airport, the flight reportedly lost altitude moments…
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