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Google AI Overview Reportedly Misstates Aircraft Manufacturer as Airbus Instead of Boeing in Air India Flight 171 Crash

Occurred
Jun 12, 2025
Published
Jun 12, 2025
Source
AI Incident Database

Summary

Following the fatal crash of Air India Flight 171, Google's AI Overview feature reportedly returned search results incorrectly identifying the aircraft involved as an Airbus A330 rather than the actual Boeing 787. The reported error, which varied across search queries, was traced to AI-generated summarizations that conflated references to Airbus as Boeing's competitor. Google later acknowledged and removed the faulty output.

Developers

  • Google

Deployers

  • Google

Harmed parties

  • Airbus
  • General public

Tags

  • response

Classification

Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%

Rationale: AI-generated hallucination misidentifying aircraft in a fatal crash report, causing misinformation without direct physical harm.

Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8

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