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India’s aviation crisis with Indigo did not emerge from a single trigger.

Engine failure most likely cause: Senior flight instructor

As the aviation experts try to speculate the reason for the unfortunate Dreamliner air disaster and the technicians decipher the black box details, a pilot, who had trained in USA and worked there as a flight instructor before taking up flying IndiGo planes and finally settling in India to be flight safety auditor, feels all possibilities point to a engine failure.

Aircraft crashes in US, third in three days

In a troubling span of 72 hours, the United States has witnessed three separate aircraft crashes -- two in New York and one in Florida -- resulting in multiple fatalities and renewed scrutiny of aviation safety across the country.