This week’s horrifying plane crash in Ahmedabad, India, happened at a critical juncture in the history of Air India, one of the world’s oldest airlines and the country’s flagship.

Search and recovery teams continued scouring the site of one of India’s worst aviation disasters for a third day after the Air India flight fell from the sky and killed at least 270 people in Gujarat ...

Viswashkumar Ramesh, 40, the sole survivor of Air India Flight 171, is among the ranks of those spared by fate.