A year after Air India crash killed 260: Do we know what happened?
Key takeaways
- Families of victims still await a final report about the Boeing 787 Dreamliner that crashed in Ahmedabad last year.
- Indian authorities are expected to issue an interim report in the coming days, another source of frustration for the victims’ relatives, who had been hoping for a definitive finding and a final disclosure.
- Under international aviation rules, a final report is due “if possible” within a year of an accident.
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Families of victims still await a final report about the Boeing 787 Dreamliner that crashed in Ahmedabad last year.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo. A tribute is set up for Air India Flight 171 plane crash victim Vijay Rupani, the late Gujarat chief minister, at the crash site on the first anniversary of the disaster in Ahmedabad on June 12, 2026 [AFP]By Sarah Shamim, Agence France Presse and Reuters Published On 12 Jun 202612 Jun 2026Friday marks one year since a deadly Air India Boeing crash, which killed 260 people in a densely populated suburb of the city of Ahmedabad in India’s western state of Gujarat.
Families of those killed gathered at the site on Friday to mark the anniversary of the disaster, but they are still waiting for answers about what caused the plane to come down shortly after takeoff from the nearby airport.