Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s ancestral home, the Kachharibari in Bangladesh’s Sirajganj district, was vandalised by a mob following a dispute between a visitor and museum staff over a motorcycle parking fee.

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