Death toll in Air India plane crash rises to 270
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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 Thursday’s crash of an Air India plane.
India’s government is urgently inspecting all Boeing 787s after a devastating Air India crash that claimed at least 270 lives this week, the aviation minister said on Saturday, adding that the authorities were investigating all possible causes.
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.
AHMEDABAD, India — The Air India plane crash this week was one of India’s worst aviation disasters, killing 241 people on board and several people on the ground. Indian authorities said Friday the investigation into the crash was underway and is expected to include experts from the plane’s maker Boeing and U.S. aviation regulators.
Critics of Boeing have long expressed criticisms of the 787 Dreamliner and the company's standards.
Both of the "black boxes" were recovered from the wreckage of the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner in India after after all but one of the 242 people onboard died.
Only one passenger survived after an Air India plane that crashed carrying 242 people shortly after takeoff near Ahmedabad in western India on Thursday, Indian officials said, after local police said they feared there would likely be no survivors from the incident.