Boeing was generating optimism. Then on Thursday a 787 crashed, raising the specter of fresh problems for Boeing and altering the message it planned to send.

Arjun Patolia, who recently performed his wife's last rites in Gujarat, boarded Air India flight AI-171 to reunite with his daughters. Tragically, the flight crashed shortly after takeoff.

For the unversed, a London-bound Air India flight, carrying 242 passengers, crashed into a medical college complex in Ahmedabad shortly after takeoff on Thursday, erupting into flames. The crash, one of India's worst air disasters in recent times,

Many Pakistani celebrities expressed their grief and disbelief on social media after the horrific Air India plane crash.