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A new video of last week's Air India plane crash, which killed 270 people, shows the lone survivor, Vishwas Kumar Ramesh, walking away from the crash site as the crashed flight turned into a fireball with plumes of black smoke engulfing the area.
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Air India flight AI171, a Boeing 787-8 carrying 242 people, crashed after taking off from Ahmedabad on its way to London.
A veteran commercial airline pilot said he may have found a “total game-changer” in what led to the doomed Air India Boeing 787 to crash after analyzing new video.
The crash happened just weeks after the company cut a deal with the U.S. government to avoid taking criminal responsibility for a pair of deadly crashes in 2018 and 2019.
Indian authorities have ordered what they called “extended surveillance” of all Boeing 787 aircraft in the country’s fleet while they investigate the cause of the Air India crash.
Boeing Co. Chief Executive Officer Kelly Ortberg is in a familiar role as he faces another crisis, this time over a crash involving the company’s 787 Dreamliner jet in India.
With all eyes on the sole survivor of Air India Flight 171, aviation insiders say that in an air catastrophe, “all bets are off” and seat choice matters little.
Boeing stock was falling Thursday after an Air India plane carrying 242 passengers and crew crashed near the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. One passenger survived the crash, The Wall Street Journal reported,