June 17 2025
John Reed in New Delhi and Chris Kay in Mumbai....... Investigators are still probing what caused a London-bound Air India flight to crash in Ahmedabad shortly after take-off, killing more than 290 people.
Whatever Air India’s role, the incident is a severe blow for the airline and its owner Tata, which prides itself on an industrial portfolio that includes steel, carmaking and the assembly of iPhones.
“There will be compensation, legal suits, customer frustration,” said Neelam Mathews, an independent aviation analyst based in New Delhi. “In the short term at least, there’d be higher insurance premiums, and airfares, very importantly, are likely to go up.”
India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau, which is leading the probe with help from US and UK counterparts, has given no indication of who or what might be to blame for India’s worst air disaster in almost three decades.
Independent experts have raised questions about the position of the plane’s..........
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