The Supreme Court has sought responses from the Centre and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on a plea of the father of one of the deceased pilots for an independent and judicially-monitored probe into the June Air India crash that claimed 260 lives.
The petition, filed by 91-year-old Pushkaraj Sabharwal along with the Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP), calls for the constitution of a court-monitored committee, headed by a retired Supreme Court judge, comprising independent aviation experts, to ensure a fair, transparent, and technically sound inquiry into the incident.
The Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP) expressed "serious" concern regarding the preliminary findings and public discourse surrounding the crash of Air India flight AI-171 in Ahmedabad.
Air India Chairman N Chandrasekaran on Thursday expressed his profound grief over the tragic air mishap in Gujarat's Ahmedabad involving Air India Flight 171, which was operating from Ahmedabad to Gatwick.
The Air India B787 Aircraft VT-ANB, while operating flight AI-171 from Ahmedabad to Gatwick, crashed immediately after takeoff from Ahmedabad this afternoon.
