At least 5 Air India international flights were cancelled. Air India said its flight from Ahmedabad to London was cancelled due to unavailability of aircraft.

A Boeing 787 Dreamliner - the same build as the one involved in last week's devastating Air India crash - was forced to turn back an hour into its 14-hour flight two years ago between Mumbai and Londo

The DGCA, following the AI171 crash, mandated enhanced safety inspections of all Dreamliner aircraft before takeoff and during transit.

An Air India flight to London from Ahmedabad has been cancelled just days after the fatal Gatwick-bound Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crash last week.

Gujarat Home Minister Harsh Sanghavi on Monday confirmed that DNA samples of 125 victims in the Air India plane crash had been successfully matched, and families of 124 deceased had been contacted.

VIDEO | Kolkata: An Air India flight from San Francisco to Mumbai via Kolkata suffered a technical snag in one of its engines, requiring passengers to be deplaned during a scheduled halt at the city airport early on Tuesday. Flight AI180 arrived on time at the city airport at… pic.twitter.com/0MSUiiwPdZ

The harrowing incident saw the London-bound Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner plunge into a residential area in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, killing 241 passengers on board and another 38 people on the ground. Now, commercial airline pilot and crash analyst Steve Schreiber has pointed to fresh footage as a key breakthrough in understanding what went wrong.

Three days after one of India’s worst aviation disasters, questions remain, about why the Air India flight, bound for London, went down. The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner plane, crashed shortly after take-off from Ahmedabad.