Author: Ali Elham, Professor of Design Optimisation, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of Southampton

Motive56 / Shutterstock An Air India plane bound for London Gatwick airport crashed shortly after take-off on 12 January in Ahmedabad, western India. Flight AI171 was carrying 242 people, including 169 Indian nationals, 53 Britons, seven Portuguese and one Canadian. Here, Professor Ali Elham, from the University of Southampton’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, speaks […]