The pilot of the crashed Air India aircraft sent out a frantic last-second communication just moments before the incidentRadio communication made public showed that the pilot, Captain Sumeet Sabharwal,

Air India flight AI171, a Boeing 787-8 carrying 242 people, crashed after taking off from Ahmedabad on its way to London.

An Air India flight from Ahmedabad to London has been canceled days after the fatal crash that killed 241 people on board. The canceled plane for was a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner—the same type of aircraft as the one that crashed last week,