The crash happened just weeks after the company cut a deal with the U.S. government to avoid taking criminal responsibility for a pair of deadly crashes in 2018 and 2019.

The American company is already reeling from years of safety crises, whistleblower scandals, financial haemorrhaging, and regulatory scrutiny that has seen a crisis in passenger confidence

Boeing stock fell sharply in premarket trading after an Air India plane crashed in what's thought to be the first such incident involving a 787.