Boeing, Air India and 787 Dreamliner
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The Air India flight, carrying 242 passengers and crew members, crashed shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad, India, en route to London Gatwick.
Boeing is forecasting strong growth in aviation despite recent crash, with demand for 43,600 new planes by 2044.
A shocking new video shows the moment the single survivor of the Air India plane crash escaped the wreckage. The clip, which emerged today, shows British-Indian man Vishwash Kumar Ramesh walking out of a huge billowing cloud of grey smoke where the crash had happened.
It was this very video — showing the Air India Dreamliner 787-8 struggling to stay in the air and crashing in a massive fireball — that has now become a crucial visual clue for investigators attempting to decode the disaster.
In a concerning recurrence of technical troubles involving Boeing's Dreamliner fleet, a British Airways flight en route to Chennai was compelled to return to London after a mid-air issue, raising fresh questions about aircraft safety.
The committee is expected to focus on "formulating Standard Operating Procedures for preventing such occurrences in the future". A separate investigation is also being carried out by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), which is looking into the technical aspects of the crash.
The London-bound Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, carrying 242 passengers and crew, crashed into a residential area near the airport shortly after taking off from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport on June 12.
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