India has ordered all Boeing 787s being operated by local carriers to be inspected after an Air India crash killed 270 people this week.The aviation regulator has ordered Air India to conduct additional maintenance checks on its Boeing 787-8/9 aircraft equipped with GEnx engines.

Payal Khatik was amongst the 230 passengers on the Air India Ahmedabad-Gatwick flight which crashed after just taking off from Ahmedabad airport.

Indian investigators have recovered the digital flight data recorder or the black box of the Air India flight that crashed a day earlier.

An early focus of the probe includes a possible loss or reduction of thrust.

Loychusak, who is now 47, recently took to Facebook to share his shock after knowing that the only survivor of the recent crash in Ahmedabad was also seated in 11A. “The lone survivor of the plane crash in India was sitting in the same seat number as me, 11A. Goosebumps,” he wrote.

The horrific crash of Air India Flight AI171 on Thursday, June 12, 2025, has left the nation in profound grief, with the confirmed death toll now sta