Investigative officers stand on the website of Air India Boeing 787 which crashed yesterday, on June 13, 2025 in Ahmedabad, India. An Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner, flight AI-171, carrying 242 passengers and crew members en route from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick, crashed shortly after takeoff on June 12, 2025, after the pilot issued a mayday name to air visitors management.
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India’s aviation regulator has ordered all Boeing 787s being operated by native carriers to be inspected after an Air India crash killed 270 individuals this week, the aviation minister mentioned on Saturday, including the authorities have been investigating all potential causes.
The aviation regulator on Friday ordered Air India to conduct extra upkeep checks on its Boeing 787-8/9 plane geared up with GEnx engines, together with assessments of sure take-off parameters, digital engine management exams and engine fuel-related checks.
“We’ve additionally given the order to do the prolonged surveillance of the 787 planes. There are 34 in our Indian fleet,” aviation minister Ram Mohan Naidu informed a media briefing in New Delhi.
“Eight have already been inspected and with instant urgency, all of them are going to be completed.”
He didn’t say whether or not authorities officers might be concerned within the inspections.
The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner with 242 individuals on board certain for Britain’s Gatwick Airport started shedding peak seconds after take-off on Thursday and erupted in a fireball because it hit buildings beneath, in what has been the world’s worst aviation catastrophe in a decade.
Air India operates 33 Boeing 787s, whereas rival airline IndiGo has one, in line with information from Flightradar24.
IndiGo didn’t reply to a request for remark.
In an announcement, Air India mentioned it’s at the moment finishing the one-time security checks directed by the Indian regulator, including that “a few of these checks may result in larger turnaround time and potential delays on sure long-haul routes.”
The planes, nonetheless, haven’t been grounded, however a supply on Friday informed Reuters the Indian authorities was contemplating that as an choice.
Naidu additionally mentioned the federal government will take a look at all potential theories of what led to the crash.
Air India and the Indian authorities have been taking a look at a number of facets of the crash together with points linked to its engine thrust, flaps, and why the touchdown gear remained open because the airplane took off after which got here down, Reuters has reported.
At the very least 270 our bodies have been recovered from the positioning of the crash, Dhaval Gameti, president of the Junior Docs Affiliation at B.J. Medical School, informed reporters.
Solely one of many 242 passengers and crew on board survived whereas others have been killed because the airplane struck the medical school’s hostel because it got here down.
The disaster has solid a shadow on Air India, which has for years struggled to rebuild its repute and revamp its fleet after the Tata Group took over the airline from the Indian authorities in 2022. Tata’s chairman mentioned on Friday the group needs to grasp what occurred, however “we do not know proper now.”
Naidu mentioned a authorities panel was investigating the crash and can challenge a report inside three months. “We’re going to enhance each vital factor that’s going to come back our means, to enhance the security,” he mentioned on the briefing, declining questions from journalists.
Lengthy watch for households
Dozens of anxious relations have been ready exterior an Ahmedabad hospital to gather our bodies of family members killed within the crash, as medical doctors have been working time beyond regulation to assemble dental samples from the deceased to run identification checks and DNA profiling.
Rafiq Abdul Hafiz Memon, who misplaced 4 kinfolk within the incident, mentioned he was not getting any solutions from authorities and was “very hassled”.
“We’ve misplaced our youngsters … we’re not understanding something. Please assist us get details about our youngsters. Inform us when they’re going to launch their our bodies,” Memon mentioned.
One other father was upset about not having the ability to get the physique of his son, Harshad Patel, saying he was informed by authorities it is going to take 72 hours for DNA profiling. “The authorities are attempting to assist however our persistence is working out,” he mentioned.
Most our bodies within the crash have been badly charred and authorities are utilizing dental samples to run identification checks.
Jaishankar Pillai, a forensic dentist, informed reporters on Friday that they had the dental data of 135 charred victims, which might then be matched by way of reference to victims’ prior dental charts, radiographs or different data.
Even for medical doctors, issues are getting troublesome, because the airplane struck a hostel constructing of the B.J. Medical School, the place most of the useless are present process identification checks.
“Most of us are fighting our feelings and are mentally disturbed due to the lack of buddies and colleagues,” mentioned one physician who didn’t want to be named.
“The lack of so many colleagues and buddies on this incident is troublesome.”