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 bound for New Delhi was forced to return to Hong Kong shortly after takeoff on Monday due to what the airline called a "technical issue" — the second serious incident involving one of its Boeing 787 Dreamliners in less than a week. CBS News reported that Flight AI315 departed as ...

Investigators in India are studying the black boxes of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner after recovering them from the aircraft wreckage to ascertain the cause of last week’s plane crash that left at least 270 people dead.