The crash of Air India flight AI 171 on June 12, just minutes after take-off from Ahmedabad, has drawn investigators’ attention to the aircraft’s right-side engine. The engine had been overhauled and reinstalled only three months ago, in March 2025.
The nearly 12-year-old Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner had last undergone a detailed maintenance check in June 2023, with the next scheduled for December 2025, sources told India Today.
The tragic crash killed nearly 270 people, including 241 passengers. A British national is the sole survivor. It was India’s deadliest aviation disaster in over a decade. The plane slammed into a medical hostel building in Meghani Nagar.
The accident is expected to trigger one of the largest insurance claims in Indian aviation history, with early estimates pegging it at around Rs 3,000 crore. Notably, Air India had raised the insurance cover on the aircraft from Rs 750 crore to Rs 850 crore just two months before the crash.
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