The flight had departed from Kannur at around 7.03 a.m. and was en route to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia when the crew detected a possible technical snag approximately 30 minutes into the journey

The Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP) has called for fresh Boeing 787 simulator tests by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) to verify the timing of Ram Air Turbine (RAT) deployment in the Air India AI171 crash