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.

An Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner en route to London’s Gatwick Airport crashed shortly after taking off from an Airport in Ahmedabad.