The Boeing 787 Dreamliner took off for its first flight on December 15, 2009, and has flown over a billion passengers. Since entering service in 2011, it had the enviable record of having no fatal accidents – but all that changed on Thursday.

While the Air India flight hardly gained much of an altitude before the crash, it was at an ideal height for the pilots to retract the landing gear

Though separated by time, aircraft type, and technological advancement, both flights—IC 171 (1976) and AI 171/AIC 171 (2025)—share more than a chilling flight number