Air India CEO Campbell Wilson has announced interim compensation of \u20b925 lakh (\u2248\u00a321,000) for each family affected by Thursday\u2019s crash that killed 241 people. This supplements the \u20b91 crore (\u2248\u00a385,000) pledged by parent company Tata Sons. Wilson confirmed efforts to reunite families with victims\u2019 remains and personal belongings, urging privacy during the emotional process. The airline is cooperating with investigators after recovering the black box from the Boeing 787-8, which crashed moments after takeoff when pilots reported power loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Safety checks are being conducted across Air India\u2019s 787 fleet as directed by regulators. The crash, which also killed bystanders in Ahmedabad\u2019s Meghani Nagar neighborhood, remains under investigation. Captain Sumeet Sabharwal\u2019s final mayday call\u2014\u201cno thrust, losing power\u201d\u2014preceded the aircraft\u2019s deadly plunge into a medical hostel. Wilson praised first responders and crew for their professionalism amid the tragedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Air India CEO Campbell Wilson has announced interim compensation of \u20b925 lakh (\u2248\u00a321,000) for each family affected by Thursday\u2019s crash that killed 241 people. This supplements the \u20b91 crore (\u2248\u00a385,000) pledged by parent company Tata Sons. Wilson confirmed efforts to reunite families with victims\u2019 remains and personal belongings, urging privacy during the emotional process. The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":738,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions\/738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}