The Air India plane that crashed and killed at least 270 people last week had one of its engines recently replaced, the airline's chairman has revealed.
Flight AI171 crashed less than a minute after taking off from the Indian city of Ahmedabad last Thursday, striking a medical college hostel and killing 241 of the 242 people on board and dozens more on the ground.
In an interview with an Indian news channel, Air India chairman N. Chandrasekaran said that both engines of the aircraft had 'clean' histories.
He said: 'The right engine was a new engine put in March 2025. The left engine was last serviced in 2023 and due for its next maintenance check in December 2025.'
As investigators sift through debris and decode the flight data from the plane's blackboxes, both of which were recovered this week, Chandrasekaran urged the public not to speculate on what caused the crash.
