US, UK investigators to assist crash probe
Air India crash
in Ahmedabad. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said in a post on X that it will be "leading a team of US investigators travelling to India to assist the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau with its investigation into the crash of an
Air India
Boeing 787 in Ahmedabad, India, Thursday."
A British agency that investigates civil aircraft accidents and serious incidents on Thursday said it will also be deploying a multidisciplinary investigation team to India to support the Indian-led investigation into the
plane crash
.
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