India, June 19 -- The right engine of the Air India Dreamliner flight that crashed 36 seconds after takeoff from Ahmedabad's Sardar Vallabhbhai Airport was changed in March 2025, and the left engine was inspected in April, the airline's Managing Director, Campbell Wilson, said on Thursday.

The London Gatwick-bound plane was "well-maintained, with its last major inspection in June 2023 and another scheduled for December 2025", Wilson said in an email to members of its loyalty programme, Maharaja Club.

As of now, a prevailing theory suggests that both engines of the aircraft failed or there was a hydraulic malfunction, which is supported by aural and visual evidence of the RAT, or Ram Air Turbine, deploying before the crash.

Experts, how...