The tragic crash of Air India’s AI171 on June 12, which claimed 270 lives in one of the worst airline disasters in recent years, has triggered a crisis of confidence in Indian aviation.

Air India Flight 171 was airborne for less than 40 seconds before it plunged into a densely-populated neighbourhood in AhmedabadInvestigators now face the grim task of sifting through the wreckage and decoding the cockpit voice and flight data recorders of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner to piece together what went catastrophically wrongAgainst the backdrop of the London-bound plane tragedy,