Chandrasekaran's statement comes a day after the airline decided to give an interim payment to the kin of the victims and survivors of the plane crash.

Tata Sons chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran said on Friday that the tragic crash of Air India’s flight AI 171 in Ahmedabad is “one of the darkest days in the Tata Group’s history”. He said this in a message to employees,

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner crash in Ahmedabad resulted in over 240 fatalities, prompting Tata Group chairman Chandrasekaran to express deep condolences in an internal letter.