A disturbing video circulating online is adding fuel to growing suspicions that the Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner that crashed shortly after takeoff Thursday had been plagued by technical issues before it ever left the ground.

Although the footage remains unverified as of Friday, it purports to show troubling conditions aboard the aircraft during a flight from Delhi to Ahmedabad—just hours before the same jet crashed after departing for London.

“I was in the same damn flight 2 hours before it took off from AMD. I came in this from DEL-AMD. Noticed unusual things in the place. Made a video to tweet to @airindia i would want to give more details. Please contact me,” user Akash Vatsa posted to X (formerly Twitter), according to the New York Post.

In the video, Vatsa reportedly complains about critical onboard systems being down.

“The AC is not working at all. And, as usual, your TV screens are also not working, neither is this button for calling the cabin crew,” he says.

Air India has refused to respond to media inquiries, including those from the Post.

The aircraft crashed just 30 seconds after takeoff from Ahmedabad, according to the BBC. India's Home Affairs Minister Amit Shah confirmed the plane was carrying 100 tons of fuel for its transcontinental journey to London.

Officials said a mayday call was issued almost immediately after takeoff, but no follow-up communication occurred, leaving investigators unclear about the nature of the emergency.

Radar data shows the plane barely reached 625 feet in altitude before rapidly descending and crashing.

“There would have been no time for him to react if he lost both engines,” one pilot told the BBC.

Sonya Brown, a lecturer in aerospace design at the University of New South Wales, told The Guardian that early indications suggest the aircraft may have stalled due to a loss of thrust.

“It does look to me like a significant loss of thrust. Thrust effectively makes you go faster, and aircraft lift is proportional to speed squared, so if you don’t have thrust and you lose speed — and radar data suggests after the initial short climb it was losing speed — you can stall,” Brown said. She added that the cause of the thrust loss remains unclear.

Jason Knight, a lecturer in fluid mechanics at the University of Portsmouth, believes a catastrophic engine failure is likely.

“The most likely cause of the crash is a double engine failure. Because the altitude was so low, the pilot would have had very little time to do an emergency landing. The most likely cause of a double engine failure is a bird strike, which would take out the engine,” he explained.

Greg Feith, a former investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board, told The New York Times that investigators will be examining every aspect of the aircraft’s configuration and operation.

“Did they properly configure the airplane when it took off? What was occurring with them? Was there a loss of thrust?” Feith asked. “Was there fuel contamination? Fuel starvation where both engines weren’t getting fuel that would have caused a loss of thrust on both engines?”

Feith also noted anomalies in crash video footage that demand further investigation.

“In the video, you see the landing gear is still down, but the flaps look to be in a relatively up position,” he said. “That will have to be examined. Normally on a large aircraft like that, you need to use some level of flap deployment. If the airplane was not properly configured, that can present a performance issue.”

Aviation safety consultant Ben Berman added that the failure to retract landing gear might have been a result of the emergency unfolding too quickly.

“It might have been that they had a massive problem right after takeoff, and they may have neglected to raise the gear. We’ll need to know a lot more about the airplane to comment on this intelligently,” Berman said.

With Air India refusing to comment and evidence beginning to mount, serious questions are being raised about mechanical readiness, maintenance protocols, and the airline’s responsibility to the passengers it serves.