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Shan Li

New Delhi

South Asia Correspondent at The Wall Street Journal

@WSJ South Asia correspondent based in New Delhi. Formerly in NYC and Beijing. Rejected by 1.4 billion people. Quarantine connoisseur. @latimes alum.

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  • 1 week ago | wsj.com | Andrew Tangel |Shan Li

    Your browser does not support HTML5 video. Investigators believe Air India Flight 171 had an emergency-power generator operating when it crashed last week, raising questions about whether the plane’s engines functioned properly during takeoff. The preliminary finding, according to people familiar with the probe, gives investigators a new line of inquiry as they study a crash that killed all but one of the plane’s passengers.

  • 1 week ago | buff.ly | Andrew Tangel |Shan Li

    调查人员认为,印度航空(Air India) 171号航班上周发生坠机时,飞机的应急发电系统正在运行;由此引出的一个疑问是,飞机起飞期间其发动机运作是否正常。据熟悉调查情况的人士透露,上述初步发现为研究此次坠机事故的调查人员提供了一个新的调查方向。这场事故导致机上人员除一名乘客外全部遇难。坠机总共造成至少270人丧生,其中包括一些在印度西部城市艾哈迈达巴德地面上的人员。Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

  • 1 week ago | flipboard.com | Andrew Tangel |Shan Li

    8 hours agoHow the Air India crash investigation is unfoldingLess than 40 seconds. That's how long Air India Flight 171 was airborne before it plunged into a densely populated neighbourhood in Ahmedabad in one of India's rarest aviation disasters in recent memory.

  • 2 weeks ago | wsj.com | Shan Li |Aakash Hassan |Stu Woo |Krishna Pokharel

    AHMEDABAD, India—There was nothing unusual about the first moments after takeoff. Then, Viswashkumar Ramesh said, it felt like the plane got stuck in midair. It wasn’t clear yet, but Air India Flight 171 was going down. Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

  • 2 weeks ago | caixinglobal.com | Shan Li |Andrew Tangel |Krishna Pokharel

    Subscribe to a bundle to unlock all coverage by Caixin Global and the WSJ. By Shan Li, Andrew Tangel and Krishna Pokharel (The Wall Street Journal) — An Air India Boeing 787-8 passenger jet carrying 242 people bound for London crashed into a residential area Thursday, less than a minute after taking off from the western Indian state of Gujarat. Only one person survived the crash, which was the first fatal incident for Boeing’s Dreamliner aircraft.

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24 Apr 24

RT @JohnReedwrites: Open letter: foreign correspondents protest the case of ABC’s Avani Dias, who was effectively forced out of #India this…

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20 Feb 24

Mug shots and months as a jailbird: the curious tale of a racing pigeon that sparked suspicions of espionage in India. https://t.co/MaFi2qnbxq

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6 Feb 24

Dueling grandsons. A 3,000-page court filing. Inside the bitter battle over the origin of butter chicken. "A delicious dispute." https://t.co/v8OgRIb8CB