At least 270 died when the Air India flight crashed into the campus of a medical college in Ahmedabad shortly after takeoff on Thursday. Only one passenger among the 242 aboard survived. At least 29 others on the ground, including five medical students inside the hostel, were also killed.

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

Chandrasekaran addressed around 700 Air India employees and its leadership team on Monday at the company headquarters and its training academy in Gurugram. According to sources, he later met Civil Aviation Minister K Ram Mohan Naidu at the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) in the Capital,