NEW DELHI (Reuters) -The head of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Stephanie Pope, met the chairman of Air India on Monday in India, two sources said, as the companies seek to find the cause of last week's fatal crash involving a Boeing 787 Dreamliner.

The crash happened just weeks after the company cut a deal with the U.S. government to avoid taking criminal responsibility for a pair of deadly crashes in 2018 and 2019.

An Air India Boeing 787-8 flight headed for New Delhi returned to Hong Kong shortly after takeoff Monday because of a "technical issue," Indian media reported.

A distressed mother who lost her son in the air crash that happened in India was seen weeping profusely and asking God why he took her son from her.

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Boeing (BA) now expects worldwide demand for 43,600 additional commercial airplanes over the next 20 years, slightly lower than its earlier forecast. The planemaker expects passenger traffic to grow at a rate of 4.

Even as its troubles refuse to die down, aviation giant Boeing Co. remains optimistic about the future and continues to bet on a surge in global air travel over the next two decades.

Hyderabad: A Lufthansa flight en route to Hyderabad was forced to turn back mid-air and return to Frankfurt after a bomb threat was reported, leading authorities to deny landing permission at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport.