Tragedy struck India last week when an Air India Boeing 787 crashed less than a minute after takeoff in Ahmedabad. Air India flight AI171 was bound for London Gatwick and was carrying 230 passengers along with 12 crew members.

It’s also the latest disaster to hit the beleaguered American aerospace giant — which has been dogged by a door that blew off a 737 jet, a leaky spacecraft that stranded astronauts on the International Space Station for months, as well as politically damaging delays in outfitting the new Air Force One jets.