Air India's new CEO faces financial and safety turbulence
The aftermath of last's year deadly crash and mounting financial losses will be Gebremariam's main challenges.


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The aftermath of last's year deadly crash and mounting financial losses will be Gebremariam's main challenges.

The final conclusions of the investigation have yet to be published, although more could become apparent in the coming days.
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Air India faces a leadership vacuum and mounting financial losses as it struggles to recover from the crash.

Wilson, whose term was set to end in 2027, will remain CEO and MD until a successor is appointed.

The grounding comes amid an investigation into a crash last year involving an aircraft of the same model.

The fuel switches were at the center of last year's crash involving an Air India Dreamliner, which killed 260 people in Gujarat state, triggering tighter scrut…

Campaigners say they have evidence the plane had previously suffered a series of technical failures, including a fire.

I flew in Air India's posh business-class seat for 15 hours. I didn't want to get off the plane.
A judge in India's Supreme Court has insisted that nobody can blame the aircraft's captain.

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Judges say India's aviation body was irresponsible to suggest through leaks to the media that pilot error had caused the disaster.
They accuse the manufacturers of doing "nothing" despite being aware of the plane's risks.

The crash occurred just as Air India was in the middle of modernizing its fleets with new seats and amenities as it seeks to compete with larger airlines.
Some of the British families who lost loved ones in the Air India crash in Ahmedabad have been sent the wrong remains, a lawyer says.
Air India 171's crash report offered no closure - just more speculation and one haunting, unexplained detail.

The preliminary investigation into the Air India plane crash that killed 241 people on board and 19 people on the ground in Ahmedabad, India, last month raised…

A report released by India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau pointed to fuel switches that flipped off during takeoff, depriving engines of power.
The 15-page report released Friday by India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau found that the cutoff switches for both engines were switched, one after a…

A preliminary report by Indian aviation accident investigators said on Saturday the fatal Air India crash that killed 260 people in Ahmedabad last month showed…
The investigators' initial findings note that fuel was briefly cut, but a final determination on the cause of the crash is likely more than a year away.
Investigators have begun analyzing data from the black boxes recovered from the Air India Boeing 787 jet that crashed earlier this month, killing 270 people.
Investigators have started analyzing data from the black boxes of the Air India Boeing 787 that crashed two weeks ago, killing at least 270 people
A video message by Campbell Wilson, Air India's chief executive, closely resembled what the head of American Airlines said after a deadly crash months earlier.

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