Reality Check : Tata Sons And Air India Chairman N Chandrasekaran Has A Blunt Message For The Airline Staff Post-Ahmedabad Crash

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Tata Sons and Air India chairman N Chandrasekaran has told the airline staff to use the plane crash in Ahmedabad as an “act of force” to build a “safer airline”, as a high-level government panel held its first meeting to probe the possible causes of the air disaster.

As the Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft remained in the spotlight since the crash last Thursday, technical snags and a bomb threat resulted in three of these wide-body twin-engine aircraft including one operated by Air India returning to origin after takeoff in the last 36 hours.

The planes bound for Delhi from Hong Kong, for Chennai from London and for Hyderabad from Frankfurt were operated by the Tata-owned airline, British Airways and German airline Lufthansa respectively.

Four days after the deadliest crash in the country in three decades claimed 270 lives, 119 victims have so far been identified through DNA matching with their family members, authorities said, adding mortal remains of 76 of them including that of former Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani were handed over to their families.

A total of 241 passengers and crew on board Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner (AI171) and 29 people on the ground were killed when the London-bound aircraft crashed into some buildings in the BJ Medical College campus and burst into flames moments after it took off from the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport. One passenger survived the disaster.