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Aviation watchdog DGCA on Tuesday said surveillance of Air India’s Boeing 787 fleet did not reveal any major safety concerns in the wake of the fatal plane crash in Ahmedabad last week
Over the years, numerous improvements in aircraft design, maintenance and operational procedures have resulted from crash investigations. Each incident, especially a fatal one such as the Air India Boeing 787 crash, offers valuable lessons that can drive further enhancements in aviation safety.
An Air India Boeing 787-8 flight headed for New Delhi returned to Hong Kong shortly after takeoff Monday because of a "technical issue," Indian media reported.
Captain Sumeet Sabharwal's body arrived in Mumbai. He was a pilot on the Air India flight that crashed in Ahmedabad. Families are receiving remains of crash victims after DNA matching. A memorial service occurred in London.
New scary footage shows the moment Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, the lone survivor of the recent Air India crash walks away.
The harrowing incident saw the London-bound Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner plunge into a residential area in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, killing 241 passengers on board and another 38 people on the ground. Now, commercial airline pilot and crash analyst Steve Schreiber has pointed to fresh footage as a key breakthrough in understanding what went wrong.
Three days after the crash, only 35 bodies had been handed over to relatives from an overall official death toll of 270.
Boeing Co. is scaling back its presence at the 2025 Paris Air Show this week following the June 12 fatal crash of an Air India 787 Dreamliner wide-body jet