AI-171 Crash Probe: No Theories, No Aswers!
The Supreme Court's comments today, which gave comfort to the father of the pilot-in-command of Air India's Boeing 787 Dreamliner that crashed in Ahmedabad, has brought the focus back on theories of electrical malfunction and other probable causes. No one can blame the pilot of the Dreamliner for the crash in June that killed 260, the Supreme Court told the pilot's father today and sent notices to the Centre, the civil aviation regulator (DGCA), and the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB). The order came on a petition by Pushkaraj Sabharwal, whose son Sumeet Sabharwal was the pilot-in-command of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, seeking an independent judicial probe into the crash. Justice Surya Kant, who heard the petition, told the 91-year-old grief-stricken father of the late pilot, "This crash was extremely unfortunate, but you should not carry this burden that your son is being blamed."
