100 days after the AI-171 jet crash, questions persist

In the aftermath of the catastrophic Air India crash , the affected are seeking answers — and accountability

Can 260 lives be lost in the blink of an eye, in what is globally acknowledged as one of the safest modes of transport, and nobody be to blame? That’s the question that is increasingly being asked, now of the courts — both in the US and in India — by those who directly feel the pain of this tragedy but have found themselves stone-walled and unable to obtain any answers from those who ought to be answering them.

File photo of the wreckage showing the tail section of the Air India Boeing 787-8 is pictured in a residential area near the airport in Ahmedabad on June 14, 2025, after the aircraft operating as flight 171 crashed shortly after taking off on June 12. Investigators recovered a black box recorder on June 13 from the crash site of a London-bound passenger jet that ploughed into a residential area of India's Ahmedabad city, killing at least 265 people on board and on the ground. (Photo by DIBYANGSHU SARKAR / AFP) (AFP)

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