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.

The Air India flight fell from the sky on Thursday and killed at least 270 people in Gujarat state, officials said Saturday.

Tragedy struck this week when a plane crashed in the city of Ahmedabad just shortly after takeoff, leaving investigators and aviation officials with many questions.

Air India directed to carry out Boeing 787 safety checks as families reunited with victims Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe on Thursday declared a State of Emergency and activated the Missouri National Guard in anticipation of protests across the state. They thought he was doing a different kind of "cruising."

One of the Brits on board the doomed Air India flight which crashed shortly after take off on 12 June shared some emotional words with his loved ones just moments before the plane plummeted into a building. Flight AI171 was bound for London, Gatwick when it took off from Ahmedabad.

Turkey said its maintenance deal with Air India covers only Boeing 777 aircraft, not the 787-8 model involved in the Ahmedabad crash that killed 270.

A woman who missed the deadly Air India flight has opened up about what delayed her. She arrived 10 minutes late and was not allowed to board the flight.

Christian Scherer, the chief commercial officer at Airbus, reacted to the Air India tragedy ahead of the Paris Air Show.