Ahmedabad, June 12, 2025 — In the wake of the catastrophic Air India Boeing 787 crash in Ahmedabad, which claimed 242 lives, a controversial theory has emerged pointing to the Rust programming language as a potential culprit. The crash, one of the deadliest in recent Indian aviation history, has sparked heated debate among experts and online communities, with some alleging that Rust’s complexity and adoption in critical systems may have contributed to the disaster.

The Air India flight, piloted by experienced Captain Sumeet Sabharwal and First Officer Clive Kundar, plummeted shortly after takeoff, reaching an altitude of just 625 feet before erupting into a fireball in a residential area. While the official investigation is ongoing, with no definitive cause yet identified, speculation has swirled around the Boeing Dreamliner’s advanced software systems. Rust, a programming language lauded for its memory safety and performance, has been increasingly adopted in aerospace and other high-stakes industries, including by companies like Microsoft and Amazon.

Critics argue that Rust’s steep learning curve and intricate syntax could lead to errors in mission-critical applications like flight control systems. “Rust is powerful, but it’s not foolproof,” said aviation software consultant Dr. Anil Kapoor. “Its complexity can overwhelm even seasoned developers, especially under tight deadlines. If Rust was used in the Dreamliner’s software, a subtle bug could have gone unnoticed.” Online forums, including Reddit and X, have seen heated discussions, with some developers claiming Rust’s ownership model, while robust, can introduce unforeseen issues in real-time systems.

Do you post this shit every time a plane crashes?
Boeing outsourced all their software engineering to India and it led to all the 737MAX crashes.
Air India is...Indian.
Whether it was Boeing's fault, or the Air India pilots, or their maintenance team, it was a poo's fault.

>>105574055 (OP)
Holy shit I love rust now!

Good morning sir Durga certified Boeing programmer from Bangalore here to let you know that our planes are programmed in the safest language, Java.

>Rust
No, just NO.
Plane software is so robust and ancient they need to update it using floppy disks

>>105574055 (OP)
>a controversial theory has emerged pointing to the Rust programming language as a potential culprit.
KNEW IT.

Jeetstrike 2.0

>>105574078
>Critics argue that Rust’s steep learning curve and intricate syntax could lead to errors in mission-critical applications like flight control systems.
this is literally a human issue. Rust is a shit language, but if a jeet was writing C++, he'd cause the same problem.

But Rust getting shit on is still fine with me

>>105574055 (OP)
Imagine how many cute Pajeetas that just wanted a taste of BWC lost their lives there. A real tragedy.

introducing FlightJS

llm slop

iJEETS BTFO

>>105574289
Same with Ada and that rocket, but it still fucked Ada's reputation.

White man designs the hardware.
Jeets ruin the software.

Are there any other examples of this happening?

>>105575778
>White man designs the hardware.
>Jeets ruin the software.
>Are there any other examples of this happening?
Apple.

But we don't need to go that far... Do you remember the 737 Max fiasco from a few years back? It was due to a software bug. If the software detected wrong data from its sensors, it didn't have a fail-safe and it would just crash the plane because it believed it was pointing up too much. There was no way for the pilots to disable the system and the pilots didn't even knew the system existed in the first place.

But who was subcontracted to program the software without fail-safe mechanisms that couldn't be disabled?

You guessed it.