
Father of Air India crash pilot seeks independent probe
The Peninsula
New Delhi: The father of one of the pilots of June s deadly Air India crash has asked India s top court for an independent investigation, saying the o...
New Delhi: The father of one of the pilots of June's deadly Air India crash has asked India's top court for an independent investigation, saying the official probe unfairly blamed the crew.
A total of 241 people on board the London-bound Boeing 787 Dreamliner were killed when the plane crashed shortly after take-off from Ahmedabad in western India on June 12. Another 19 people were killed on the ground.
A preliminary investigation report by India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) said fuel to the jet's engines was cut off moments before impact.
Pushkaraj Sabharwal, 91, the father of deceased pilot Sumeet Sabharwal, claimed in his petition that the preliminary AAIB investigation was "profoundly flawed".
The AAIB report in July did not offer any conclusions or apportion blame for the disaster, but indicated that one pilot asked the other why he had cut off fuel and that the second pilot responded that he had not.













