Wreckage of Air India flight 182 being unloaded at Cork following the disaster. The expected influx of victims’ relatives to Cork may not materialise. Air India yesterday postponed plans to fly ...

An Air India Boeing flight crashed, killing hundreds of passengers. A mayday call from the pilot revealed what caused the incident.

Arjun Patoliya had travelled to India to hold a funeral for his wife Bharti. After fulfilling his wife’s dying wish to scatter her ashes in Gujarat, Mr Patoliya boarded the Air India flight to Gatwick to return home to his two daughters, aged four and eight.

Boeing Co. Chief Executive Officer Kelly Ortberg has canceled plans to attend the Paris Air Show after Thursday’s Air India crash that killed all but one of the 242 people aboard a Dreamliner plane in the deadliest aviation accident in more than a decade.

The pilot of the London-bound Air India jet that crashed Thursday put out an urgent call as the Boeing 787-8 quickly lost altitude on takeoff. “Mayday ... no thrust, losing power, unable to lift ,” Sumeet Sabharwal told traffic control less than a minute into the flight, per reports.