The aircraft was under the command of Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, a Line Training Captain with over 8,200 flying hours, alongside First Officer Clive Kundar, who had logged 1,100 hours of flight time. The jet involved was delivered to Air India in January 2014, making it over 11 years old.

A Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashes in Ahmedabad, marking the first fatal accident for the aircraft. Air India flight AI171 from Ahmedabad to London was involved. Details on the incident and impact.

Even before Thursday, investors were in for a long journey. The aerospace company expanded its total debt by more than 400% during the pandemic.

There have been cases of a very small number of survivors in very serious accidents, but it is "very rare" for there to be only one, a professor told Newsweek.

Only one person walked out of the shattered Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner. British-Indian national Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, seated in 11A, emerged as the sole survivor of Air India flight AI-171, which crashed just moments after takeoff from Ahmedabad's Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport.

Air India issued a tragic update confirming the exact death toll after Flight 171 crashed Ahmedabad Airport in western India - only one survivor has been confirmed