The preliminary report of the Air Accidents Investigation Bureau of India on theAir India Flight 171 crash, killing 260 people On June 12, the investigation focused attention on the pilots' actions. It noted that, according to the flight recorder, the two fuel control switches, normally used to turn the engines on or off on the ground, were switched from the "run" position (run) in the "cut" (cutoff) shortly after takeoff. This caused both engines to lose thrust.

Traffic on the outskirts of the Indian city of Ahmedabad prevented Bhoomi Chauhan from arriving at the airport on time. This caused her to be ten minutes late for her flight and miss her flight to London. But those ten minutes saved her life. The Air India plane crashed shortly after takeoff: everyone died, except for one man.

A British citizen is the only known survivor of the Air India flight that crashed Thursday, just seconds after takeoff. Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, 40, of London, described from his hospital bed seeing bodies everywhere after the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner plummeted 190 meters into a densely populated suburb of Ahmedabad. Police reported that the survivor was in seat 11A. They also said that between the 241 passengers who died and the casualties caused by the accident on the ground, there were more than 290 deaths. "Everything happened very fast," explained Ramesh, who suffered injuries to his face, chest, and feet. It is still unclear how he survived, but some parts of the plane appeared to have remained intact after the impact.

New York Helicopter Charter, the company that operated the helicopter tour that killed five members of a Catalan family and the pilot after the plane crashed into the Hudson River, is at the center of the investigation that has been launched following the tragedy. The company has a long history of flying tours around New York City, some of which have suffered safety issues. The company's chief executive, Michael Roth, said in the statement:New York Timesthat he doesn't know what happened to the helicopter, a device he had rented from a Louisiana company. However, the same American newspaper points out in an article This is not the first time that helicopters operated by New York Helicopter Charter have failed in the last twelve years.