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Express view | Air India crash preliminary report: A transparent probe is the least that is owed to the dead and their families

July 15, 2025 7:22 am

While the full and final report will be out in a year’s time, what the AAIB report says -- and what it doesn't say -- has raised concerns

IndiGo commences operations on its first long-haul route with direct flights between Mumbai and Manchester

July 01, 2025 6:57 pm

IndiGo is the only airline to offer direct connectivity between India and Manchester. Services will be operated on Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft with enhanced onboard amenities

Air India Boeing crash | ‘Neither death nor process of science could separate them’

June 18, 2025 12:25 am

With several families still waiting for the remains of their members to be identified — many having collected the body of one of their relatives and still awaiting news about the others

'Since yesterday, around 1,500 to 2,000 people have come': Locality where plane went down struggles to ward off onlookers

June 15, 2025 7:47 am

As two cranes reached the hostel compound to extricate the tail of the plane, crowds swelled further, prompting the police to disperse them

Ahmedabad plane crash: 'Felt like an earthquake, then there was fire, heard screams'

June 15, 2025 6:08 pm

Sources added that the students who had left the debilitated buildings have been provided other accommodations on the college campus itself

Biggest challenge is identifying bodies and handing them respectfully to their families: Mohol

June 15, 2025 8:41 am

'Post mortem examinations are underway, alongside DNA profiling, to help in identifying the bodies'

Black boxes of ill-fated Air India Boeing 787 aircraft might be the first big test of AAIB’s brand new, cutting-edge laboratory

June 15, 2025 12:08 am

With the data retrieved from the DFDR, investigators can generate a computer animated video reconstruction of the flight

Gujarat teen shot video to show friends planes flying overhead — the crash left him traumatised

Will never board a plane: Boy who shot video of Dreamliner crash left traumatised

June 16, 2025 6:57 am

Ahmedabad Air India plane crash: It was this very video — showing the Air India Dreamliner 787-8 struggling to stay in the air and crashing in a massive fireball — that has now become a crucial visual clue for investigators attempting to decode the disaster.

Police stand guard outside the postmortem room and Kasauti Bhavan (where the DNA samples are being taken), at BJ medical college in Ahmedabad. (Express Photo/Sankhadeep Banerjee)

Ahmedabad plane crash: Gujarat Minister Harsh Sanghavi holds meeting with police, forensic experts to assess progress of DNA testing

June 14, 2025 4:48 pm

Minister Harsh Sanghavi, however, did not reveal the number of passengers' bodies identified.

Ahmedabad crash aftermath: Eight of Air India's 33 Boeing 787 planes have been inspected so far, says Aviation Minister Naidu

June 14, 2025 3:55 pm

The DGCA's directive for enhanced safety inspection had come a day after an Air India 787-8 aircraft crashed moments after take-off from the Ahemdabad airport.