AfricaLink News: August 15
Ghana holds state funeral for air crash victims +++ AU backs accurate map size for Africa
Fiongal Greenlaw-Meek’s mother thought she had brought home his remains — then came a test that poses questions about the bodies already buried
The Air Accident Investigation Branch is continuing to investigate the crash on 13 July.
The mistakes were found after DNA testing by a coroner in London. The Indian government said bodies of the Flight 171 victims “were handled with utmost professionalism.”
Victims’ remains misidentified and ‘commingled’ parts of more than one person placed in one casket, says lawyer
India's foreign ministry said all remains were treated with dignity.
Reports on the Daily Mail and The Telegraph in the United Kingdom noted that British prime minister Keir Starmer is expected to discuss the case with prime minister Narendra Modi when the latter makes a state visit to Britain this week.
Students’ demands include compensation for families, as well as new training procedures for the country’s air force.
An investigation into a deadly crash last month has focused on control switches that cut off fuel to an Air India Boeing jet after takeoff.
Air India Express 171's crash report offered no closure - just more speculation and one haunting, unexplained detail.
The Bangladeshi military said that a mechanical error caused an Air Force training aircraft to crash onto a school campus for students ranging from elementary to high school.
A Bangladesh Air Force F-7 crashed into a school in Dhaka’s Uttara neighbourhood, killing at least 19 people.
The families accused investigators of pinning the blame on the pilot while ignoring other factors into the crash in South Korea.
Vishwash Kumar Ramesh is treated with awe in India, but family say he is racked with guilt about the crash that killed his brother and 240 others
Relatives of the Jeju Air disaster victims objected to the report in a stormy scene at a news conference, complaining that it blamed the pilots prematurely.
Experts have been critical of the AAIB's investigation into the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad. Questions surround its tone and apparent attempt to shift the blame on pilots.
Foreign media blamed for ‘repeatedly attempting to draw conclusions through selective and unverified reporting’
The AAIB should at least come forth with some clarification to allay public apprehension.
American investigators think it was Sumeet Sabharwal, the senior pilot, who flicked the fuel switches off and on again, resulting in 260 deaths
Plane from Abu Dhabi sent back as countries order airlines to check fuel switches on aircraft following Air India crash
Airlines in India, Singapore and South Korea were inspecting fuel control switches on their Boeing jets.
India aviation agency tells airlines to investigate fuel switch locks on several Boeing models, including 787s and 737s.
Experts have raised questions about information not included in the preliminary report, writes Theo Leggett.
The airport is closed until further notice and air accident investigators are at the crash site.
Preliminary findings spark debate over actions of pilots ahead of loss of Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner that killed 260 people
Two commercial pilots groups reject initial probe into June 12 crash, calling it ‘reckless and unfounded insinuation’.
Pressure mounts over a report suggesting the fuel cut-off switches were deliberately triggered moments after take off
US regulator’s notice follows preliminary investigation that found the switches had been turned off
A report into what caused the Air India plane crash in June has revealed reasons for the incident.
AI-171 is a national tragedy, but hopefully one that should spur India to set up an independent transportation safety board.
A preliminary assessment in last month’s disaster focusing on fuel being cut to both engines only deepened the mystery for people grieving loved ones.
Sumeet Sabharwal and Clive Kunder were hailed as heroes after the crash of AI 171, but a new report suggests one may be a villain
Investigators released a preliminary account of the crash, describing how the plane struggled after its fuel supply was cut.
Air India plane crash: Report says engine fuel supply was cut off, confusion in cockpit
In the cockpit voice recording, one of the pilots can also be heard asking the other why he cut off the fuel, to which the other pilot responded that he did not.
A preliminary report investigating the Air India crash finds both fuel switches were moved to the off position.
Preliminary investigation does not apportion blame for Boeing 787 crash that killed 260 people in June.
A report has revealed one of the two pilots asked the other why fuel was cut off moments before the crash, which killed 260 people
Preliminary findings recommend ‘no actions’ against Boeing or GE Aerospace over incident
Mechanical or design failures have been ruled out as causes of the crash, which killed 260 people, according to industry reports
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch is said to be looking at Flight 171’s landing gear, engine thrust and flap settings — but sabotage has not been ruled out
Huge expansion of airports and infrastructure has created need for stronger oversight and more staff, analysts say
June 13, 2025 India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau is investigating the crash with help from the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board. Authorities said Friday that the black box has been recovered.
At least three former staffers have said their concerns around safety procedures, training protocols and more were ignored – and they were eventually fired from the airline.
A video statement by Campbell Wilson, Air India’s chief executive, after the June 12 plane crash was nearly identical to one given five months earlier by the head of American Airlines, after a crash in Washington, D.C.
Media reports in India have suggested that the flight's recorders will be sent overseas for analysis.
The crash of an Air India flight shows how the country’s ambitions of rapid growth are often superimposed on urban infrastructures already pushed to the limit.
India's Rishabh Pant says "emotion will be high" for his team and country in the first Test against England following the Air India plane crash last week.
The move came a day after Indian officials told the airline to improve its operations, and as delays and canceled flights are drawing complaints from passengers.
The flight AI 143 was diverted to Sharjah, where it halted for over 5 hours as maintenance checks were carried out after passengers reported smoke coming out of an electrical socket.
Viswashkumar Ramesh, the lone survivor of last week’s Air India disaster, wept as his brother’s body arrived.
The show is happening at a delicate time for Boeing, which is coming off its best month for sales in a year and a half and a deadly plane crash in India involving one of its aircraft.
A visibly upset Ramesh was overcome with grief carrying his brother's coffin to the crematorium.
Aryan Asari just wanted to film planes flying in the sky - but he ended up capturing one of the country's biggest air crashes.
Airline was more than halfway into a post-privatisation turnaround when tragedy struck
A family is calling for urgent action to support mourners still waiting for their loved ones' bodies.
Akash Patni, 14, was dropping off lunch for his mother, who ran a tea stall, when an Air India plane crashed into a nearby building, taking his life and the family’s main source of income.
Relatives of those on board Flight 171 to London, which crashed after taking off from Ahmedabad, say they have been ‘abandoned’ by the Foreign Office
Videos and witness reports suggest that the Boeing 787 could have experienced power loss from both engines
Abdhiben Patel is among 270 people to have died as a result of the crash on Thursday.
Three days after the crash, only 35 bodies had been handed over to relatives from an overall official death toll of 270.
Incident comes days after an Air India plane crashed in the western Ahmedabad city, killing all but one of 242 on board.
Officials said on Saturday that 11 victims had been identified so far based on their DNA samples.
The disaster in the Indian state of Gujarat affected thousands in Britain’s Gujarati diaspora. Some of them came together on Saturday to remember the victims.
It is unknown what caused the crash on June 12 and the horrific loss of lives that went with it. However, the manufacturing company’s past has raised some eyebrows.
Delays caused by need for DNA identification add to the strain on families of the more than 250 people who died
The Royal Family will wear black armbands for the Air India crash at this year's Trooping the Colour.
At the hospital in Ahmedabad, family members were giving DNA samples, waiting for official confirmation of their loss in the Air India disaster, and remembering their loved ones.
Viswashkumar Ramesh, the only survivor of the Boeing 787 plane crash, said he witnessed other passengers die.
Air India confirmed that 241 of the 242 passengers on board the flight have died, the total death toll including from the impact on B.J. Medical College remains to be known.
Vishwash Kumar Ramesh explains how he escaped from the emergency exit of the Boeing 787, as Narendra Modi visits the site of the disaster in Ahmedabad
Air India plane crash shakes country's booming aviation market
The country’s worst civil aviation disaster in almost three decades claims more than 200 lives
One British man, who was a passenger on the London-bound flight, survived the crash in Ahmedabad, western India.
Viswash Kumar Ramesh, 38, who sustained multiple injuries, a doctor said, was the only passenger out of 242 people on board the plane to walk away.
Fatal crash raises new concerns for both firms as they try to revamp after years of problems that marred reputations.
Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, from Leicester, survived the India Air plane crash that killed all 241 of the other people on board
Cause of incident involving 787-8 aircraft is unknown but could deal a blow to chief executive Kelly Ortberg’s strategy
An Air India jet to London came down minutes after take-off
Dozens of family members filed a joint complaint against 15 aviation officials, accusing them of negligence and violating South Korean law.
A criminal complaint was filed against 15 people, including the transport minister, for negligence.