Colleagues of a beautician who was killed in the Air India plane crash have said she brought "kindness to every moment". Abdhi Patel, 40, was flying back to the UK after visiting her elderly mother when flight A1171 crashed shortly after take-off from Ahmedabad on Thursday.

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

HONG KONG — An Air India flight returned to Hong Kong on Monday shortly after takeoff due to a midair technical issue, days after another of the airline’s flights crashed and killed at least 270 people .

A Delhi-bound Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner flight has been forced to turn back on Monday after the aircraft’s pilot said the jet was facing technical issues mid-air. The Air India flight, AI 315, was operating from Hong Kong to Delhi and had departed from the Asian city at 11.59am local time for its scheduled destination in New Delhi.

Officials said they had found the cockpit voice recorder that may provide crucial clues about what caused the Air India flight to crash, killing at least 270 people.

A veteran commercial airline pilot said he may have found a “total game-changer” in what led to the doomed Air India Boeing 787 to crash after analyzing new video.

Boeing's CEO pulled out of the Paris Air Show following the Air India crash, which has set a somber mood for the aviation and defense event at Le Bourget.

Owen Jackson, from Saffron Waldon, Essex was on a work trip and needed to stay in India longer than planned so never boarded the plane that crashed in Ahmedabad, Gujarat on Thursday. The businessman changed to a flight leaving on Saturday – which would have been the same aircraft – and in a strange coincidence, was booked onto seat 11A.