For more than a decade, pilots and judges have warned that India’s breakneck urban development was pushing population centers closer to the nation’s runways.

The AI-171 crash has similarities to a similar incident in 2020 in the UK. Investigators who probed the earlier case in UK are now in Ahmedabad and initial reports suggest the crash wasn't due to any error in the cockpit.

Air India faces fresh turbulence following last week’s fatal crash as additional safety inspections on its Dreamliner fleet lead to flight delays, cancellations and growing passenger anxiety.