Air India has cancelled eight international Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner flights after the horrific aviation disaster last week. The passenger jets were hit by a mix of issues from aircraft unavailability, technical snags, airspace restrictions, and extended safety checks.

India's aviation safety watchdog said on Tuesday surveillance conducted on Air India's Boeing 787 fleet did not reveal any major safety concerns, days after one of its jets crashed, killing at least 271 people.

Air India Boeing 787 flight to London was canceled just days after the crash on June 12 that took the lives of over 290 people. Air India said the cancellation was due to "unavailability of the aircraft.

After defending the pilots involved in the Air India Flight 171 crash in Ahmedabad, influencer Gaurav Taneja, aka Flying Beast, has speculated why so many flights were cancelled in the wake of the tragedy.

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There have been cases of a very small number of survivors in very serious accidents, but it is "very rare" for there to be only one, a professor told Newsweek.