Air India Ahmedabad-London Flight Cancelled Days After Deadly Crash
Air India on Tuesday afternoon cancelled its Ahmedabad-London Gatwick flight citing "operational issues". No further explanation was offered, some passengers complained.
Sources at Ahmedabad's Sardar Vallabhai Patel Airport said passengers will be re-routed.
This comes days after the horrific crash of Air India's AI-171 - a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner flying the same sector, i.e., from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick, crashed seconds after take-off.
Videos showed the Air India plane slamming into buildings bordering the airport, including a college hostel, and exploding into a terrifying fireball that killed 241 of the 242 people on board.
At least 33 people on the ground were also killed.
Flight and voice data recorders from the crashed plane have been recovered and the information is being analysed, the government has said. A high-level committee has been set up to oversee the inquiry and also suggest measures to prevent such terrifying accidents.
In the aftermath of the June 12 AI-171 crash three other India-bound Boeing 787 Dreamliners - operated by British Airways, Lufthansa, and Air India - were forced to return to origin airports.
One of those was a Hong Kong-Delhi AI flight that returned 15 minutes after taking off; Air India said AI-315 turned around because of a "technical issue" but gave no further details
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