That could be mechanical failure, Willial, 787-8 Dreamliners have had problems with that before, in Mexico in 2021 a similar incidents that time involving birds, and in March 2024 a Saudi jet of the same type had a similar episode again involving birds.
Ahmedabad has lots of problems with bird strike incidents. 2nd behind only Delhi with the worst but Delhi is almost 5 time busier.
Air India is also suffering of late after Tata Group is conducting enormous cuts across all its enterprises, due to reductions in market share of its industrial enterprises.
Why was Air India flying such an old plane on such a route with incidents across the type for that kind of airport?
Also, there was security chatter about an Air India jet, and some have online posted about a possible “Air India event” a week before the crash. One Indian social media influencer even predicted a crash which may point to Pakistan involvement.
