Air India crash highlights a new problem for Boeing
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The Air India plane that crashed in Ahmedabad on June 12 was a Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft. As per a report, Air India had 34 Boeing 787 airframes in its fleet before the crash.
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Air India flight AI171, a Boeing 787-8 carrying 242 people, crashed after taking off from Ahmedabad on its way to London.
Boeing's Stephanie Pope met Tata Sons Chairman N Chandrasekaran to discuss the Air India flight AI171 crash in Ahmedabad. The flight, a Boeing 787, crashed shortly after takeoff, claiming over 270 lives.
It’s also the latest disaster to hit the beleaguered American aerospace giant — which has been dogged by a door that blew off a 737 jet, a leaky spacecraft that stranded astronauts on the International Space Station for months, as well as politically damaging delays in outfitting the new Air Force One jets.