India, Dreamliner crash
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Last month, 260 people were killed when Air India’s Flight AI171, a Boeing 787-8, crashed on its way to London Gatwick due to failed engine fuel control switches. The flight crashed on June 12 shortly after taking off, killing 241 out of the 242 people on board, along with 19 people on the ground.
The London-bound Dreamliner had crashed into a medical students' hostel minutes after taking off from Ahmedabad airport --- killing all but one passenger and many others on the ground.
International airlines from South Korea and India are preparing to inspect its Boeing fleets following findings from the Air India crash investigation.
Experts says only few people were well-versed with the aviation industry to tell fake from genuine information, and debunk wildly speculative hypotheses.
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