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Air India Boeing 787 Carrying 242 Passengers Crashes After Takeoff


Flying to London, a Boeing 787 aircraft operated by Air India "crashed shortly after taking off..." reports Bloomberg, "in what stands to be the worst accident involving the U.S. planemaker's most advanced widebody airliner." Flight AI171 was carrying 242 passengers and crew. Video footage shared o...

Flying to London, a Boeing 787 aircraft operated by Air India "crashed shortly after taking off..." reports Bloomberg, "in what stands to be the worst accident involving the U.S. planemaker's most advanced widebody airliner." Video footage shared on social media showed a giant plume of smoke engulfing the crash site, with no reports of survivors. The pilots in command issued a mayday call immediately after take-off to air traffic controllers, according to India's civil aviation regulator.

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