Medical students who survived when an Air India plane crashed into their hostel in Ahmedabad say their first reaction was to help treat the injured.

Two different survivors of deadly plane crashes decades apart say they both sat in seat 11A. Is there something that makes that seat safter than others? Not according to aviation and disaster medicine experts.

The father of the village postmaster has been named among those who died in the Air India plane crash last week. Kirit Patel was killed when the London-bound Air India plane crashed soon after taking off on Thursday from Ahmedabad, along with 240 other passengers.

An Air India Boeing 787-8 flight headed for New Delhi returned to Hong Kong shortly after takeoff Monday because of a "technical issue," Indian media reported.

Three days after the crash, only 35 bodies had been handed over to relatives from an overall official death toll of 270.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) -The head of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Stephanie Pope, met the chairman of Air India on Monday in India, two sources said, as the companies seek to find the cause of last week's fatal crash involving a Boeing 787 Dreamliner.

Investigators are still probing what caused a London-bound Air India flight to crash in Ahmedabad shortly after take-off, killing more than 290 people. Whatever Air India’s role, the incident is a severe blow for the airline and its owner Tata,