Patience First
The temptation to settle on a convenient explanation after a major aviation disaster is understandable.
The temptation to settle on a convenient explanation after a major aviation disaster is understandable.
According to the airline's statement, flight AI479 "marginally infringed" into Pakistani airspace, which remains closed for Indian airlines.
An Air India Airbus A321 operating between Delhi and Amritsar briefly entered Pakistani airspace after a navigation system snag. The aircraft returned safely to Indian airspace following an alert from Pakistani ATC and later landed in Amritsar after a diversion to Delhi.
One year after one of the worst aviation disasters in Indian history, the most unsettling reality is not that the final answer remains elusive. It is that, in the absence of definitive findings, competing certainties have rushed in to fill the void.
The plane took off. It never landed. 260 people left the ground that afternoon, only one came back. Milan Sharma lost his sister. Now he is making sure no one forgets.
According to the media report, the two former Air India flight attendants alleged that that the door of the Boeing Dreamliner had malfunctioned as the slide raft deployed, despite the door being opened in the "manual mode".
The Ministry of Civil Aviation has released new draft rules aimed at giving authorities the power to take prompt action against buildings and trees that exceed height limits in designated aerodrome zones.
A week after the deadly AI171 plane crash in Ahmedabad, India will send the black box of the Air India Boeing 787 aircraft to the United States for data recovery, as per sources.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Tuesday said that it did not find any major safety concerns with Air India's Boeing 787 Dreamliner fleet.
This series of cancellations of Air India International flights came days after an Air India flight to London, using the same type of Boeing aircraft, crashed in Ahmedabad moments after takeoff, killing 241 of the 242 people on board.
