Air India, flight and London
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As part of ongoing investigations, the plane’s black boxes are being analysed. A black box records flight data, and includes a cockpit voice recorder for pilot exchanges and cockpit sounds. It will also pick up engine sounds. Today (Monday 16th) it’s been reported the cockpit recordings have been found.
The pilot of the doomed Air India flight is said to have "saved dozens of lives" due to his final decision before the plane struck a residential area. A total of 270 bodies have since been recovered following the horror crash in Ahmedabad on Thursday,
A British dad has shared his shock and expressed his gratitude for the last minute flight change that saved his life - he was due on the Air India flight 171 this week
An Air India plane with more than 200 people on board crashed near the airport in India's city of Ahmedabad, the airline and police officials said.
Medical students and an Indian doctor couple and their three children are among the dead after a fatal Air India crash that killed 241 people on board. In the worst aviation disaster in a decade Air India flight 171,
Seven people have died in a helicopter crash in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand. According to the BBC, a helicopter carrying visitors to a number of Hindu religious pilgrimage sites in the Himalayan mountains crashed on Sunday, June 15, during what would have been a 10-minute flight.
An Air India passenger plane carrying 242 passengers and crew crashed in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad on Thursday afternoon.
Close on the heels of the mishap involving an Air India flight from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick, a domestic flight of the airline carrying 168 passengers developed a technical issue immediately after take-off from Delhi to Vadodara on Sunday evening.