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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.
Three days after the crash, only 35 bodies had been handed over to relatives from an overall official death toll of 270.
Follow NBC News live updates for the latest coverage of of the Air India plane crash in the city of Ahmedabad. Only nne man, a U.K. national survived.
The Air India plane that crashed near Ahmedabad was a Boeing 787 Dreamliner en route to London, carrying 242 passengers. It marks the first fatal crash involving this aircraft model. https://t.co/HqzJzjw3qk pic.twitter.com/DWLiTvlhij
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.