Investigators searched the site of one of India’s worst aviation disasters and Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with the lone surviving passenger Friday, a day after an Air India flight fell from the sky and killed 241 people on board and several people on the ground. The London-bound Boeing 787 struck a medical college hostel … Read more
Imtiyaz Ali Sayed All but one person on board the London-bound flight died in the crash Imtiyaz Ali Sayed refuses to grieve. Not when the news first broke – that his younger brother Javed, along with Javed’s wife and two children, had perished in the devastating Air India crash in Ahmedabad on Thursday afternoon. Not … Read more
Investigators searched the site of one of India’s worst aviation disasters, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with the lone surviving passenger Friday a day after an Air India plane split apart and fell from the sky, killing 241 people on board and several people on the ground. The London-bound Boeing 787 struck a medical … Read more
Indian Rare Earths extracts rare earth elements from beach sands in Kerala, India. Pallava Bagla | Corbis News | Getty Images India, like many countries, is facing China’s restrictions on rare earth exports — and it wants to develop its own domestic supplies. Experts say it could become an important alternative to China for partners … Read more
Matt Murphy & Joshua Cheetham BBC Verify BBC What exactly happened to Flight AI171 between Ahmedabad and London Gatwick on Thursday afternoon will only be revealed by a detailed investigation, but the moments after take-off can be the most challenging in aviation. Indian investigators will be joined by experts from the US and UK in … Read more
A London-bound Air India plane carrying 242 people crashed into a residential area shortly after take-off in Ahmedabad, western India. The airline says 241 people on the plane were killed – one passenger, a British national, survived and is receiving treatment in hospital. Dramatic footage shows the aircraft taking off before coming down in a … Read more
Neyaz Farooquee & Thomas Mackintosh BBC News, Delhi and London Verified video shows the Air India plane descending before deadly crash An Air India plane travelling from India to London crashed within moments of take-off on Thursday, killing 241 passengers and crew, and more people on the ground. The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, which took off … Read more
Reuters Almost all those on board an Air India flight bound for London Gatwick Airport that crashed shortly after take-off in western India have died, the airline has confirmed. There were 242 passengers and crew on board the plane, including 169 Indian nationals, 53 Britons, seven Portuguese nationals and one Canadian. Officials earlier said some … Read more
The deadly Air India crash involving a Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft has left air industry experts describing the disaster as “puzzling” given the plane’s safety record. Air India Flight 171 crashed in the Indian city of Ahmedabad on Thursday shortly after takeoff, with more than 240 people on board. According to Vidhi Chaudhary, a top … Read more
André Rhoden-Paul BBC News Hindustan Times British national Vishwash Kumar Ramesh A man survived the Air India crash that killed at least 200 people, a police chief has told an Indian news agency. Ahmedabad Police Commissioner GS Malik told ANI there was one survivor who was in seat 11A on the London-bound Boeing 787-8 flight. … Read more