Overview

• Flight AI171, carrying 230 passengers, 10 cabin crew and two pilots, issued a Mayday call seconds after liftoff from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport before crashing into a nearby neighborhood.
• Pilots Sumeet Sabharwal and Clive Kundar had a combined 9,300 flight hours of experience at the controls of the ill-fated Dreamliner.
• The accident marks the first deadly hull loss for the Boeing 787 fleet since its 2011 entry into service, despite more than one billion passengers flown on nearly five million flights.
• Last month’s $1.1 billion settlement between Boeing and the US Department of Justice over 737 Max crashes has intensified scrutiny of the manufacturer’s safety standards.
• Indian aviation authorities and the Federal Aviation Administration are collaborating on an investigation to determine whether mechanical failures or procedural errors led to the disaster.