Captain Kishore Chinta, a former investigator with India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), calls this "the rarest of the rare" crashes - a controlled flight into terrain just 30 seconds after take-off. "To my knowledge, nothing quite like this has ever happened," he told the BBC.

An Air India flight from Ahmedabad to London has been canceled days after the fatal crash that killed 241 people on board. The canceled plane for was a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner—the same type of aircraft as the one that crashed last week,

Air India has cancelled 83 flights since the Ahmedabad crash of AI171, with 66 involving Boeing 787 Dreamliners. The DGCA has mandated intensified safety checks on the fleet. While 24 aircraft have cleared inspections,