Issue on British Airways flight one of two incidents in recent days to affect the same type of aircraft involved in the Air India crash in Ahmedabad that killed 241 people on board

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A passenger jet carrying over 240 people crashed shortly after takeoff in India. Air India Flight AI 171, bound for London's Gatwick Airport, had just left an airport in the city of Ahmedabad. Its signal reportedly was lost at an altitude of 625 feet,