This Tech Could Have Prevented Fire on Air India Dreamliner 787 Flight

AS the country is still recovering from the horrifying Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner crash that killed 260 people on June 12, it has emerged that the deadly fireball that engulfed the aircraft, triggered by 1.2 lakh litres of aviation fuel, could have been entirely preventable.

- BANSY KALAPPA @ Bengaluru

Ajit Tharoor, CEO of Atom Alloys—which has operations in India, the USA, Japan and the Middle East, said, "If the explosion had been prevented, many passengers could have survived, perhaps with broken bones and injuries, but alive."

Tharoor's company has developed a technology—the ATOM Explosion Prevention System—that, he claims, could have stopped the aircraft from becoming a firebomb.