India, Boeing and Crash
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The Air India flight fell from the sky on Thursday and killed at least 270 people in Gujarat state, officials said Saturday.
Air India has confirmed that one passenger survived Thursday's airplane crash, which had 242 passengers and crew members on board.
Critics of Boeing have long expressed criticisms of the 787 Dreamliner and the company's standards.
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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.
Thursday’s deadly crash struck at Boeing’s most ambitious and one of its most commercially successful jet programs — a coveted airplane that airlines the world over gladly wait years to receive.
The crash happened just weeks after the company cut a deal with the U.S. government to avoid taking criminal responsibility for a pair of deadly crashes in 2018 and 2019.