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The trade event is a big draw for the industry every year, as Boeing, Airbus and other aerospace giants host parties, sign deals and show off new aircraft.
Brit Lawrence Daniel Christian, 26, took a heartbreaking final photo with his mum outside the airport before he boarded the doomed Air India flight that took his life
Newly released CCTV footage shows Air India Flight 171 take off before crashing moments later. CNN aviation analyst Miles O’Brien offers his analysis.
A 28-year-old student who was visiting western India says she missed her Air India flight​ back to London. That flight was AI171​, which crashed shortly after takeoff.
Turkey said its maintenance deal with Air India covers only Boeing 777 aircraft, not the 787-8 model involved in the Ahmedabad crash that killed 270.
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Officials on Saturday confirmed that the black box recovered from the Air India Flight 171 crash site in Ahmedabad was largely intact and showed minimal damage, raising hopes that crucial flight data could be extracted in India itself, according to The Hindustan Times.
Air India said it has completed such safety checks on nine of its Boeing 787 aircraft and is in process to complete it for the remaining 24 planes.
India aviation regulators said urgent safety checks would be carried out for dozens of Boeing 787 jets in the wake of the Air India crash that killed all but one of the 242 people on board. Air