Exhaustive probe needed as many questions on Al crash

Flying is safer than crossing the street. India's worst aviation incident in recent history, which took lives not only of those seated in the plane but also of medical students in their college hostel and others on the street, does not change the perception of safety even if it does alter the statistical chances of a person dying in an air crash a bit.

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What we need to know in this horrifying loss of lives is why did Air India's Boeing 787-8 lose altitude so shortly after take-off. Was it a bird hit, erroneous flying, aviation fuel contamination or fuel starvation behind the critical loss of thrust from both engines as suggested by the landing gear still being down and bad configuration of the air flaps while the plane was climbing while airborne for less than a minute after taking off from Ahmedabad?