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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…
3 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Jun 17, 2025 08:42 AM IST Tata group and Air India Chairman N Chandrasekaran on Monday asked the airline’s employees to stay strong and use last week’s crash of the airline’s Boeing 787-8 aircraft in Ahmedabad as “an act of force to build a safer airline”, according to sources in the…
4 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Jun 20, 2025 10:51 AM IST Air India on Thursday detailed the temporary curtailment plan for it wide-body international flights. A day earlier, the Tata group carrier had said that it would reduce international flights operated by long-range aircraft like Boeing 787 and Boeing 777 by 15 per cent till at…
4 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Jun 22, 2025 01:16 AM IST Aviation safety watchdog Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has issued a stern warning to Tata group airline Air India over repeated and serious lapses in flight crew rostering, and has asked the carrier to remove three of its officials from crew scheduling and rostering…
3 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Jul 12, 2025 10:09 PM IST After the release of the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau’s (AAIB) preliminary report on the Air India flight AI 171 fatal crash in Ahmedabad, Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation Murlidhar Mohol on Saturday said that the report was a preliminary one and conclusions should…
The preliminary report of the ongoing investigation into the June 12 crash of Air India flight AI 171 is far more detailed than what industry veterans and experts expected, and gives an indication of the direction the probe may be headed in. The 15-page report from the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), an office attached…
4 min readNew DelhiJul 15, 2025 11:19 PM IST Air India will start from August 1 the partial restoration of its international wide-body schedule that had been truncated by about 15 per cent due to the airline taking a “safety pause” after the June 12 crash of its Ahmedabad-London Gatwick flight AI 171 operated by…
What happened inside the cockpit of the doomed Air India flight AI 171 has become a matter of significant speculation globally, with various theories doing the rounds. Even at this early stage in the investigation, which could take months to conclude, many have insinuated pilot action—inadvertent or even deliberate—as the probable cause. Then there are…
3 min readUpdated: Jul 28, 2025 10:28 PM IST Air India Flight 171 crash: The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) has recently released its preliminary report of the investigation into the June 12 Air India plane crash at Ahmedabad (AI-171). However, a detailed investigation is in progress to determine the probable cause(s)/ contributory factor(s) leading…
