Factbox-Air India Disaster Is 1st Fatal Boeing 787 Accident
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Air India Flight 171, bound for London with 242 passengers and crew aboard, went down shortly after departing Ahmedabad airport
The draft report is then shared with “concerned states”, seeking their comments, which are then reviewed to make any necessary changes in the report.
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.
ANB—was 11.5 years old and had logged over 41,000 flight hours and nearly 8,000 takeoff-landing cycles, according to aviation analytics firm Cirium. This Dreamliner was one of 27 legacy B787-8 planes operated by Air India.