Investigators From UK and US Heading to India to Help Probe Air India’s Dreamliner Crash; Drones Pose Tremendous Danger to Military and Other Targets; DU Will Not Teach Manusmriti, Assures VC

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Over to Sidharth Bhatia for today’s Cable

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Snapshot of the day

June 12, 2025

Sidharth Bhatia

In what appears to be the deadliest crash in Air India’s modern history and the first fatal global accident involving a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft — the company’s top of the line commercial aircraft — only one British national, Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, who was on seat 11A and leapt out of the emergency exit, survived out of 242 onboard the London-bound Air India AI171, Ahmedabad police commissioner G. S. Malik confirmed. “Thirty seconds after take-off, there was a loud noise and then the plane crashed. It all happened so quickly,”