President Donald Trump swiftly addressed the incident, calling it “terrible” and “one of the worst in aviation history.” He said the US was ready to provide any necessary assistance, stating, “Anything we can do, we’ll be over there immediately.”

Justin Fuller Spidey was on a small plane used for skydiving, along with 19 other people, when it crashed shortly after taking off from Tullahoma Regional Airport on June 8. The sky diving instructor spoke out about the incident hours later in a Facebook post.

Boeing said it is ready to support Air India ... figure out what went wrong in the case of a commercial plane that crashed shortly after takeoff in India on Thursday, one expert said.

More than three days after giving a DNA sample, Imtiyaz Ali is enduring an anguished wait to receive the remains of his brother who died in the Air India crash.

Air India flight AI171, a Boeing 787-8 carrying 242 people, crashed after taking off from Ahmedabad on its way to London.