The Air India crash is the latest in a series of setbacks that have defined much of the past decade for Boeing. These have led to a cascading effect on Boeing’s operations and finances, while its rival Airbus barely made any news and stayed profitable.

Searches for airline disasters are sure to skyrocket in the coming days, with reports that more than 200 passengers and crew lost their lives in the Air India Flight 171 crash. The way generative AI operates means some people searching for details may get the wrong impression from Google's results page.

Airbus SE said the fatal accident on Thursday in India involving a Boeing Co. airliner should spur the industry as a whole to advance its safety culture, dismissing the notion that the crash could bring a competitive edge to one planemaker over the other in the global duopoly.