Captain Kishore Chinta, a former investigator with India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), calls this "the rarest of the rare" crashes - a controlled flight into terrain just 30 seconds after take-off. "To my knowledge, nothing quite like this has ever happened," he told the BBC.

Air India Chairman N Chandrasekaran apologized for the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad. Over 270 people died when a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crashed into a medical college. The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau and DGCA initiated probes,

AHMEDABAD – In the wake of the devastating Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad, U.S. aviation safety officials have joined the ongoing investigation into the disaster that claimed at least 271 lives.