Since the Tata takeover, India’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation has repeatedly fined Air India over safety and other regulatory violations, including an Rs8mn ($95,000) penalty last year for exceeding flight duty time limits. At home, it is competing in a near-duopoly with IndiGo, which has been boosting its international long-haul routes.

A new video has surfaced online showing the moment the sole survivor of the Air India plane crash walked away from the scene as the wreckage exploded into flames behind him. Viswashkumar Ramesh, a 40-year-old British national,

The Air India flight fell from the sky on Thursday and killed at least 270 people in Gujarat state, officials said Saturday.