India Plane Crash Inspection and Recovery Begins
India said that 8 of the 34 Boeing Co. 787 planes in the country have been inspected following the fatal crash of an Air India 787 Dreamliner on Thursday that killed all but one of the 242 people on board. (Source: Bloomberg)
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