Boeing was generating optimism. Then on Thursday a 787 crashed, raising the specter of fresh problems for Boeing and altering the message it planned to send.

Boeing 787 Dreamliner — with 242 people on board crashed into a medical college complex in the Meghaninagar area moments after taking off from the airport on Thursday afternoon.

The Air India flight fell from the sky on Thursday and killed at least 270 people in Gujarat state, officials said Saturday.

The Air India plane crash investigation continues after the black boxes were recovered. The captain was reportedly a few months from retirement. "I'm just appalled," one person fumed. "Repulsed."

"Thrust not achieved, falling, communication line during this transmission very weak, Mayday" — these were the final words transmitted by the Air India pilot to Air Traffic Control at Ahmedabad airport,

A father of two who had traveled from the U.K. to India to spread his wife's ashes died in the Air India crash on June 12, leaving the couple's two daughters, ages 4 and 8, orphaned. Arjun Patoliya, 37,

Nayan Vagadaya had driven more than three hours to the Civil Hospital here after he heard that his uncle was one of the victims of the Air India plane crash, the country’s deadliest in almost three decades.

At the hospital in Ahmedabad, family members were giving DNA samples, waiting for official confirmation of their loss in the Air India disaster, and remembering their loved ones.