The head of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Stephanie Pope, met the chairman of Air India on Monday in India, two sources said, as the companies seek to find the cause of last week's fatal crash involving a Boeing 787 Dreamliner.

The Air India flight fell from the sky on Thursday and killed at least 270 people in Gujarat state, officials said Saturday.

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.

Air India had hiked the insurance cover on the ill-fated Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft from Rs 750 crore to Rs 850 crore following an engine replacement in April this year, Times of India reported citing people familiar with the matter. The total claims from the plane crash are expected to exceed Rs 1,500 crore, the report added.

European aeroplane manufacturer Airbus announced Saudi and Polish orders for more than 100 aircraft at the Paris Air Show on Monday while US rival Boeing f