One of the black boxes of the Air India Boeing 787-8 aircraft has been recovered from the crash site in Ahmedabad by the on-site team of the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), which is leading the investigation into the worst aviation disaster involving an Indian airline in decades. The flight data recorder (FDR), one of…
4 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Jun 14, 2025 10:45 AM IST Air India will be fully transparent in the investigation into the crash of its Boeing 787-8 aircraft and will support the probe process as long it lasts, the Tata group airline’s chief executive officer Campbell Wilson said Friday. In a recorded statement from Ahmedabad, the…
Viswashkumar Ramesh, the sole survivor of Thursday’s Air India flight 171 crash that killed 241 people, defied all odds to make it out alive. Remarkably, he escaped from the front of the aircraft — an area typically considered less safe than the rear in the event of a crash. Viswash, who is currently recovering from…
4 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Jun 15, 2025 08:41 AM IST India was rated well above the global average in terms of its operations and airworthiness by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) when the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) was last audited in November 2022, with the overall Effective Implementation score being raised to…
3 min readMumbaiUpdated: Jun 14, 2025 08:03 PM IST Air India crash compensation update: While the death toll in the Air India Dreamliner crash in Ahmedabad touched 249 as of Saturday, people who died on the ground will also get the compensation announced by the Tata group. According to the Tata group, people who died…
3 min readAhmedabadUpdated: Jun 14, 2025 03:55 PM IST Eight of Air India’s 33 Boeing 787 aircraft have so far been inspected following the directive issued Friday by aviation safety regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) for enhanced safety inspection of the aircraft type, Civil Aviation Minister K Ram Mohan Naidu said Saturday. The…
The Centre has set up a high-level multi-disciplinary committee to look into Thursday’s crash of the Air India London-bound flight (AI 171) in Ahmedabad, which killed 241 people on board and many on the ground too. While the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) is already leading a technical investigation into the crash, the committee is…
The black boxes of the ill-fated Air India Boeing 787-8 aircraft that crashed in Ahmedabad on Thursday may be decoded and analysed by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) at its brand new state-of-the-art laboratory that was inaugurated just two months ago, The Indian Express has learnt. Sources indicated that the decision on whether the…
In the aftermath of the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad that claimed over 240 lives, Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation and Cooperation Murlidhar Mohol spoke to The Indian Express about the steps the government is taking to facilitate the process of identifying bodies. In a conversation with Sunanda Mehta, the Lok Sabha…
A video of the last moments of the doomed Air India Boeing 787-8 could offer new insight into the Ahmedabad crash till the time the flight data recorder (FDR) data is analysed. The video, shot by Class 12 student and amateur terrace photographer Aryan Asari, could challenge a few theories doing the rounds on what…
