Air India will resume some international flights in August following the fatal crash of flight AI171 in Ahmedabad last month.On Tuesday (15 July), the airline announced the “partial restoration” of schedules that were reduced during a “safety pause”.

San Francisco: US aerospace giant Boeing has signed a contract valued at $7 billion to supply 12 of its 787 Dreamliner aircraft to Gulf Air, with options for six additional jets. The agreement, announced Thursday, comes as the Bahrain-based airline seeks to expand its global reach and modernise its fleet.

The deadly Air India crash last month has renewed a decades-old debate in the aviation industry over installing video cameras monitoring airline pilot actions to complement the cockpit voice and flight data recorders already used by accident investigators.

A cockpit recording of dialogue between the two pilots of the Air India flight that crashed last month supports the view that the

The announcement comes a few days after the preliminary report into the AI 171 crash came out. The accident claimed 260 lives—241 of the 242 people on board and 19 on ground.

A Golden Chassis is a specialised tool used to recover data from damaged flight recorders. It consists of an identical, undamaged unit of the same model as the affected recorder and is used to interfa