1 week ago Investigators begin analyzing data from black boxes of Air India flight that crashed

NEW DELHI (AP) — Investigators have begun analyzing data extracted from the black boxes of the ill-fated Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner that crashed about two weeks ago, killing at least 270 people, India’s civil aviation ministry said on Thursday. The data is crucial as it will help shed light on the cause of the […]

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1 week ago ‘Never got closure,’ says woman 40 years after father died in Air India 1985 bombing

Forty years after the bombing of Air India Flight 182 on June 23, 1985, there still is no closure for some who lost their family members in Canada’s deadliest terrorist attack. “The grief is still very much alive,” said Neelam Kaushick on Monday during a noon-hour ceremony on the south lawn at Queen’s Park in […]

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1 week ago 40 years ago, Susheel Gupta’s mother was killed in the Air India bombing

Air India Flight 182 was blown up over the Atlantic Ocean on 23 June 1985, killing all 329 passengers and crew, most of whom were Canadian citizens.

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2 w. ago Majority of Canadians say Air India bombing not treated like national tragedy: poll

'It continues to be not just a faded page in Canadian history, but almost a blank page'

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2 w. ago 40 years on, families of Air India disaster find peace and comfort in small Irish town

On Monday, June 23, family members of the people killed in the bombing of Air India Flight 182 will join Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree, Irish Prime Minister Michael Martin, representatives of the Indian government and a group of B.C. RCMP officers to mark the 40th anniversary of the tragedy.

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2 w. ago After the Air India flight crashed into a medical campus, the surviving doctors rushed to save lives

At least 270 died when the Air India flight crashed into the campus of a medical college in Ahmedabad shortly after takeoff on Thursday

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2 w. ago Air India flight midair technical issue has it return to Hong Kong shortly after takeoff

The incident occurred days after another of the airline's flights crashed and killed at least 270 people

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3 w. ago Remains of Air India crash victims are handed over to relatives

AHMEDABAD, India — Authorities have started handing over remains of the victims of one of India’s worst aviation disasters, days after the Air India flight crashed and killed at least 270 people, officials said Sunday. The London-bound Boeing 787 struck a medical college hostel in a residential area of the northwestern city of Ahmedabad minutes […]

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3 w. ago Death toll in Air India crash climbs to 270 as search teams find more bodies

AHMEDABAD, India —  Search and recovery teams continued scouring the site of one of India’s worst aviation disasters for a third day after the Air India flight fell from the sky and killed at least 270 people in Gujarat state, officials said Saturday. The London-bound Boeing 787 struck a medical college hostel in a residential […]

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3 w. ago Death toll in Indian plane crash climbs to 270 as search teams find more bodies

AHMEDABAD, India (AP) — Search and recovery teams continued scouring the site of one of India’s worst aviation disasters for a third day after the Air India flight fell from the sky and killed at least 270 people in Gujarat state, officials said Saturday. The London-bound Boeing 787 struck a medical college hostel in a […]

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3 w. ago A student is alive after missing doomed Air India flight by 10 minutes due to traffic

The 28-year-old was reportedly flying home but was turned away by the Air India staff for arriving less than an hour before departure

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3 w. ago ‘I GOT UP AND RAN’: How one man survived plane crash that killed 241

(Bloomberg) — As Air India Flight AI171 descended toward its doom on Thursday, Ramesh Vishwaskumar sat in the first row of economy class — headed for one of the most harrowing and luckiest moments of his life. After the Boeing Co. 787 Dreamliner slammed into a densely populated district of the western Indian city of […]

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3 w. ago Authorities investigate one of India’s worst aviation disasters as Modi visits the site

NEW DELHI (AP) — Authorities are investigating one of India’s worst aviation disasters a day after an Air India plane crashed, killing all but one of the 242 passengers and crew onboard, officials said Friday, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the crash site. The Indian government has launched an investigation into the fatal crash […]

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3 w. ago Passenger films TVs, A/C not working on doomed Air India flight

An Air India passenger shared stunning video of the doomed plane’s TV monitors and air conditioning not working one trip before it crashed on the next flight shortly after takeoff Thursday. There was one survivor of the Ahmedabad crash as at least 240 people died aboard the Boeing aircraft that departed for London Gatwick Airport […]

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3 w. ago Boeing’s troubled era has dimmed the prospects of a preeminent American manufacturer

A London-bound Air India plane carrying more than 240 people crashed shortly after takeoff Thursday. Authorities said there were no known survivors. It was not immediately clear why Air India flight 171, a Boeing 787-8, crashed into a residential area five minutes after taking off. Boeing said it was aware of the reports of the […]

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3 w. ago One Canadian aboard Air India flight that crashed just after takeoff

In a social media post, PM Mark Carney says he's 'devastated' to learn about the crash

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3 w. ago Air India flight to London crashes with 240, including Canadian, on board

An Air India passenger plane with more than 240 people on board, including one Canadian, crashed in India's city of Ahmedabad on Thursday.

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3 w. ago Canadian on Air India flight that crashed with 242 onboard. One reportedly survived the crash

'Thirty seconds after take-off, there was a loud noise and then the plane crashed. It all happened so quickly,' British national Vishwash Kumar Ramesh told Hindustan Times

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3 w. ago Identity of Canadian woman on Air India flight that crashed with 242 onboard revealed

'That was my wife,' the husband reportedly told Canadian Press. 'I am not in a state to speak right now'

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