PARIS: Boeing chief executive Kelly Ortberg has cancelled his trip to next week’s Paris Air Show, a major aviation industry event, to focus on the investigation into the Air India Dreamliner crash.

The crash has put the spotlight back on Boeing, which had been making progress under new leadership following concerns over safety and quality of planes made by the US aircraft maker.

The London-bound Air India flight ploughed into a residential area of India’s Ahmedabad city shortly after takeoff on Thursday, killing at least 265 people on board and on the ground.

It was the first crash of a 787 Dreamliner, Boeing’s flagship long-distance aircraft.—AFP