Hundreds gathered in Mumbai today to honour Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, the Air India pilot who has been hailed as a hero for limiting casualties on the ground during last week’s crash.Captain Sabharwal issued a mayday call to air traffic controllers moments after takeoff and residents on the ground have credited him with avoiding a large residential building that was directly on the flight path.

A new video from the Ahmedabad Air India crash shows the sole survivor, Ramesh Vishwas Kumar, in a white t-shirt, walking away from the blazing wreckage while talking on the phone. pic.twitter.com/G1DSkhA9Bh

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India’s aviation safety regulator has said it has found no “major safety concerns” during inspections of Air India’s Boeing 787 aircraft following Thursday’s fatal crash of a flight from Ahmedabad to London.

A lady who worked as a flight attendant was one of the people who died in the devastating Air India plane crash that happened in Ahmedabad and killed many.

Close on the heels of the mishap involving an Air India flight from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick, a domestic flight of the airline carrying 168 passengers developed a technical issue immediately after take-off from Delhi to Vadodara on Sunday evening.

An early focus of the probe includes a possible loss or reduction of thrust.