NTSB will lead US team traveling to India to help crash probe
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The National Transportation Safety Board said on Thursday it will lead a team of U.S. investigators traveling to India to help in the investigation of the crash of an Air India Boeing 787 bound for London with 242 people aboard.
(Reporting by Doina Chiacu; Editing by Katharine Jackson)
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