The military said the plane experienced a mechanical failure during a training mission. At least 27 died from the crash, 88 people being treated in a Dhaka hospital.
Message of condolence came after at least 20 people died & 171 more were injured when a Bangladesh Air Force training jet crashed into a school Monday in Dhaka's Diabari.
According to an report in The Economic Times, the box suffered heavy external damage from post-crash fire making it impossible to recover its content in India.
Ministry of Civil Aviation had in a statement Monday said ‘recent surveillance conducted on Air India’s Boeing 787 fleet did not reveal any major safety concerns’.
In a statement, Lufthansa clarified that safety of passengers and crew is their highest priority. Affected passengers were provided with accommodation in Frankfurt.
On a moonless November night in Assam, the Russian manufactured Tupolev Tu-124K V643, also known as Pushpak, landed about four kilometres off the Jorhat airport, killing five crew members. Morarji Desai was among the passengers who survived.
I don’t believe that the US-India relationship has deteriorated beyond repair. There are ways of handling Trump, even if the Pakistanis have outplayed us this year.
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