Why Did the Air India Plane Crash?
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner, the pride of modern aviation, rotates on the runway with 242 lives aboard with the engines at takeoff thrust. Suddenly, the engines go to idle as the weight comes off the wheels. Speed rapidly bleeds off. A desperate mayday mayday echoes, then silence. Just 36 seconds after takeoff, all but one are gone. This is Air India flight 171, the first fatal crash of a 787. What caused this catastrophe and what does it mean…