Overview
- Flight AI171’s Boeing 787 Dreamliner bound for London Gatwick crashed into a building seconds after taking off from Ahmedabad on June 12, killing 241 of 242 people on board
- Thursday’s Mid-Day newspaper front page ran a KidZania advertisement showing an Air India jet emerging from a building facade just hours before the real-life catastrophe
- KidZania India says the illustration is a standard design for its Aviation Academy, part of a pre-planned summer campaign submitted before the crash
- Air India has offered its deepest condolences, set up a dedicated hotline and dispatched support teams to assist victims’ families
- The Directorate General of Civil Aviation has opened a formal probe into the crash with findings expected in the coming weeks