Eight international flights due to be operated by Boeing 787-8 Dreamliners have been cancelled by Air India. They included services to London, Paris, Vienna and Dubai

The sole survivor of the Air India plane crash has appeared in public for the first time since his incredible escape from the burning aircraft, declaring it "a miracle" that he is alive. Vishwash Ramesh, 40, told how he crawled through a hole in the twisted fuselage to escape the doomed Dreamliner.

Investigators in India are studying the black boxes of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner after recovering them from the aircraft wreckage to ascertain the cause of last week's plane crash that left at least 270 people dead.