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Air India Flight From Ahmedabad to London Canceled Days After Fatal Crash
An Air India flight from Ahmedabad to London has been canceled days after the fatal crash that killed 241 people on board.
There was no official comment on the cause of the cancellation, but Indian news channel CNN News18 reported it was due to "technical issues."
The canceled plane for was a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner-the same type of aircraft as the one that crashed last week, according to data from FlightRadar.
Tuesday's incident comes five days after the Air India crash in Ahmedabad, when a London-bound Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crashed minutes after taking off.
The crash killed 241 people on board and a further 29 on the ground in what was one of India's worst ever aviation disaster.
Investigators are studying the two black boxes recovered from the crash site.
Experts from India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau are probing the crash with assistance from the U.K., the U.S. and officials from Boeing.
In a separate incident on Monday, an Air India pilot turned back his Delhi-bound Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner to Hong Kong airport as a precaution shortly after taking off, citing a technical issue, Indian media reported.
Flight tracking data showed the pilot turning Flight AI315 around less than 30 minutes into the flight from Hong Kong as reported by Indian news agencies IANS and ANI.
Newsweek has contacted Air India for comment. The nature of the technical issue was not immediately clear.
This is a breaking news story-more to follow.
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