Air India is pursuing resolution of the fatal crash of the Boeing 737 Max 9 passenger plane on board a class 737 jet in India

The passenger plane carrying more than 200 people crashed in India on Thursday, according to the airline. Air India said 242 passengers and crew were onboard the plane when it crashed. 169 Indians, 53 British, seven Portuguese and a Canadian are included. There wasn’t any information about survivors at the time.

The smoke from the crash site was seen on local TV channels, which are located in a city with a population of over five million.

India’s civil aviation minister is Ram Mohan. All efforts are being made to ensure medicalaid and relief support for the site, according to the post by Naidu Kinjarapu.

Boeing has had problems with passengers on their planes in the past. According to the Aviation Safety Network database, there has been no deaths reported in previous incidents involving the Boeing plane.

Boeing is facing a lengthy legal saga over two fatal crashes of its Max plane that killed hundreds of people in the last two years. The company reached a deal with the Justice Department last month, which would spare the company from taking criminal responsibility for the crashes.

As part of the deal, Boeing would still have to admit to obstructing federal oversight, pay a fine, contribute to a fund for the families of the victims and invest in safety and quality programs. The deal, which must still be approved by a judge, was opposed by many of the families of the crash victims.

The airplane manufacturer has faced other prominent safety issues. In January 2024, a hole blew open on a Boeing 737 Max 9 during an Alaska Airlines flight, exposing passengers to forceful winds. Boeing told regulators in August of that year it would redesign the panels to better detect any malfunctions.

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Kelly Ortberg, the company’s chief executive, described 2025 as “our turnaround year” in a message to employees in April, when the company released better-than-expected quarterly financial results.

It is too early to know the cause of the crash. But aviation experts say they’re able to draw some information from watching footage of the plane’s brief flight — and point to questions that investigators will likely explore.

90 people were bought in from the trauma center where casualties were being treated. She requested anonymity because she was not authorized to speak to the media. Reuters reported that at least 30 bodies had been recovered from a building at the site of the plane crash.

Casualties may also include people impacted after the plane, or parts of the plane, smashed into the cafeteria of a hostel for male students of the BJ Medical College in Ahmedabad, according to a hospital official who declined to be named because she was not authorized to speak to the media. She stated that the hospital was taking in casualties.

Natarajan Chandrasekaran, the chairman of the Tata Group that operates Air India said, in a statement that flight AI171 was involved in a “tragic incident.” He stated that the conglomerate was making sure that the emergency response teams were taken care of. The airport where the flight took off has stopped operating.

Concerns about the plane’s carbon fiber fuselage have been raised. The person said he observed problems with the way parts of the plane were fastened together. The longtime Boeing engineer warned that production “shortcuts” could significantly shorten the lifespan of the plane, eventually causing the fuselage to fall apart in mid-flight.

Boeing was not happy with the allegations. The engineers at the company tested the plane’s nose and found no evidence of fatigue.

Federal regulators grounded the entire 787 fleet worldwide for more than three months after lithium ion batteries caught fire on two of the aircraft in 2013, leading to smoldering fires in the cargo hold. Boeing had to craft a workaround and created a metal box to surround the batteries to prevent fires from spreading.

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The National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday morning via  X that the agency will lead a team of U.S. investigators to assist in the crash investigation.

Some aviation experts also noted that the wing flaps on the Dreamliner did not appear to be extended. Lift and lower stall speed can be increased by extending the flaps during takeoff.

“Perhaps the engines were not putting out the amount of power they needed to be putting out”, Guzzetti said, ” although I don’t see smoke or burping or flames coming from the engines.” So it could be just a computer programming issue with the engines.”

Boeing and Air India have a long-standing relationship, with the airline taking delivery of its first Boeing jet, a 707-437, in 1960, according to India’s Ministry of Civil Aviation.

Departing early Thursday afternoon local time, Flight 171 used “the full length of Runway 23 at Ahmedabad,” having “backtracked to the end of the runway before beginning its take off roll,” Flightradar 24 said via Bluesky.

The airliner has completed at least 11 international trips in the last week, with locations including Paris, Berlin and Manila, according to the site Flightradar 24.

The jet has accumulated more than 41,000 hours of flying time, which is an average for an aircraft of its age.

The plane that left was a 787-9 and it was registered as VT-ANB. The aircraft was manufactured in Seattle and delivered to Air India in January 2014, according to data from Cirium.

“It just appears to me that the airplane is unable to climb,” former National Transportation Safety Board investigator Jeff Guzzetti told NPR, reacting to videos that apparently captured the moments before the crash. “It was able to take off from the runway and get up to 500 feet, but it just wasn’t able to climb after that.”