Safety and the supply chain supplant orders at this year’s biennial Paris Airshow in the wake of the Air India accident.

Prayers are being held across the South East for people who died in the Air India plane crash on Thursday. A temple in Gravesend, Kent, is holding a memorial service on Sunday to remember the victims.

Boeing 787 Dreamliner — with 242 people on board crashed into a medical college complex in the Meghaninagar area moments after taking off from the airport on Thursday afternoon.

Indian authorities have ordered what they called “extended surveillance” of all Boeing 787 aircraft in the country’s fleet while they investigate the cause of the Air India crash.

Since Thursday evening, Mr Jignesh and his family have been doing the rounds of the Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad, trying to find details of his 22-year-old niece - one of the 242 passengers that died in an Air India plane crash earlier that day.

Air India crash likely to trigger India’s biggest aviation insurance payout - The total liability could range from £166m to £220m, according to estimates

Indian investigators have recovered the digital flight data recorder or the black box of the Air India flight that crashed a day earlier.