{"id":72347,"date":"2025-06-13T18:07:46","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T09:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/13\/air-india-crash-cause-theories-experts-flight-171-ahmedabad"},"modified":"2025-06-14T01:55:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T16:55:56","slug":"from-bird-strike-to-sabotage-experts-offer-range-of-theories-for-india-air-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72347","title":{"rendered":"Air India crash: investigators to focus on plane\u2019s engine thrust, wing flaps and landing gear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airline\u2019s maintenance regime will also be scrutinised as experts offer theories for cause of disaster<\/p>\n<p>The official investigation into Air India flight AI171 is focusing on the Boeing 787\u2019s engine thrust, wing flaps and landing gear, with the airline\u2019s maintenance regime also coming under scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/13\/one-of-two-black-boxes-recovered-from-air-india-wreckage-police-sources-say\">one black box now retrieved<\/a> from the wreckage of the plane, India\u2019s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau is looking at whether the plane\u2019s engine thrust and wing flaps failed, and why the landing gear remained open.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/13\/air-india-crash-cause-theories-experts-flight-171-ahmedabad\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airline\u2019s maintenance regime will also be scrutinised as experts offer theories for cause of disasterThe official investigation into Air India flight AI171 is focusing on the Boeing 787\u2019s engine thrust, wing flaps and landing gear, with the airline\u2019s m&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4801,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3341,376,62,931,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-india-ahmedabad-plane-crash","category-air-transport","category-india","category-plane-crashes","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4801"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72377,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72347\/revisions\/72377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}