Boeing 787 Dreamliner Plane Crash in India Rips Up Passenger Jet’s Safety Record

The crash of an Air India flight to London is the first fatal incident involving a Boeing 787, dealing a fresh blow to the plane maker seeking to emerge from a series of safety and manufacturing crises.

The hobbled American icon has been buffeted by successive problems in recent years, losing billions of dollars because of plane groundings and production delays. Thursday’s crash now threatens the company’s fragile recovery.