A view shows the wreckage of an Air India aircraft, bound for London’s Gatwick Airport, which crashed during take-off from an airport in Ahmedabad, India June 12, 2025.
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An Air India plane that was bound for London and carrying 242 people crashed seconds after takeoff in western India on Thursday, killing all but one person on board the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
It marked the first crash of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner and was the deadliest plane crash in years.
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GE Aerospace, as well as U.S. federal crash investigators will participate.
shortcuts on the 787 to reduce bottlenecks and created “excessive stress” on major airplane joints. Boeing denied the accusations.
Deliveries of the aircraft were also grounded for about a year until mid-2022 because of manufacturing flaws where parts of the fuselage were improperly spaced.
After the Dreamliner first entered service in 2011, the planes were grounded for inspections due to fears of lithium battery fires.
What does this mean for Boeing?
Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg, who took the reins last August, has been working to move the manufacturer, a top U.S. exporter, out of the spotlight for a series of safety and manufacturing crises.
The company had already been reeling from two crashes of its best-selling 737 Max jets when a door plug blew out of a new Max 9 in early 2024.
The impact on Boeing will depend on the crash investigation. Demand for new planes has still been robust, and airlines often continue to place orders because the waiting period can stretch several years.
Wolfe Research said in a note on Thursday that “we don’t see much direct impact on financial performance, but this is certain to sap momentum until some solid clarity is provided.
“We don’t see any impact to the production ramp as a result of this and would expect any impact on demand to be very minimal (and localized) as well,” Wolfe wrote. “A modest risk could be any feedback loop to certification of the [yet-to-be-certified] 777X, but it is very early to size any risk there.”
Boeing has orders for 900 more Dreamliners, according to its website.
