An Air India Boeing 787-8 flight headed for New Delhi returned to Hong Kong shortly after takeoff Monday because of a "technical issue," Indian media reported.

An Air India crash Thursday involved a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, which the aircraft manufacturer first delivered 14 years ago.

An Air India Ltd. plane crash that killed 241 of the 242 people on board shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad on June 12 was the worst commercial airline disaster since 2014.

Sumeet Sabharwal, who the Indian government has said had 8,200 flying hours of experience and was also an Air India instructor, was the commanding pilot of flight AI171. His co-pilot was Clive Kunder who had 1,100 hours of experience. Sabharwal's funeral took place in Mumbai on Tuesday.

An Air India flight to London from Ahmedabad has been cancelled just days after the fatal Gatwick-bound Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crash last week.

It’s also the latest disaster to hit the beleaguered American aerospace giant — which has been dogged by a door that blew off a 737 jet, a leaky spacecraft that stranded astronauts on the International Space Station for months, as well as politically damaging delays in outfitting the new Air Force One jets.

After a London-bound passenger jet crashed into a residential neighbourhood of India's Ahmedabad city, social media users falsely claimed an old video of an overheated airline passenger was taken moments before the disaster.

The investigation into Air India flight 171 crash opens up questions into the many concerns surrounding Boeing's 787.