A WILD plan to make planes crash-proof using gigantic airbags has been revealed by two budding engineers.

The mind-blowing concept would kick into action using AI to detect when a crash cannot be prevented by the pilot.

Project Rebirth wants to create a system with smart airbags, impact-absorbing fluids and reverse thrust mid-air to turn "fatal crashes into survivable landings".

The proposal came about from two tech whizzes, Eshel Wasim and Dharsan Srinivasan from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science university in Dubai .

Their radical design was "born from tragedy" in the wake of the catastrophic Air India crash that took the lives of 260 people on June 12.

The plane crashed just 32 seconds after leaving Ahmedabad Airport in India, en route to London Gatwick Airport .

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