For more than a decade, pilots and judges have warned that India’s breakneck urban development was pushing population centers closer to the nation’s runways.

One of the engines of the Air India plane that crashed last week was new, while the other was not due for servicing until December, the airline's chairman has said. In an interview with an Indian news channel,

An Air India flight bound for New Delhi was forced to return to Hong Kong shortly after takeoff on Monday due to what the airline called a "technical issue" — the second serious incident involving one of its Boeing 787 Dreamliners in less than a week. CBS News reported that Flight AI315 departed as ...