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The Air India aviator has not been blamed successful the AAIB’s preliminary report into the June 12 level crash that claimed 260 lives, the Centre told the Supreme Court connected Thursday (November 13, 2025).
A seat of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi was told by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta that the Aircraft Accident Investigation Board (AAIB) probe team into the level clang was formed nether the planetary authorities and determination is simply a statutory proviso for it.
Justice Bagchi said, “The AAIB enquiry is not for apportion blasted connected anyone. It is lone to clarify the origin truthful that the aforesaid does not hap again.”
Advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for an NGO, said that a parallel enquiry should beryllium done similar a tribunal of enquiry into the mishap of specified a large scale.
He said that a aviator federation has stated that these airplanes cannot beryllium trusted and determination is simply a immense hazard connected radical flying successful their aircraft.
Justice Kant said these proceedings should not go a combat betwixt 1 hose versus different airline, and asked Mehta to record the effect to the plea filed by the begetter of the deceased father.
The Bench adjourned the substance for further proceeding aft 2 weeks.
On June 12, Air India's Boeing 787-8 craft operating formation AI171 en way to London's Gatwick airdrome crashed into a aesculapian hostel analyzable soon aft taking disconnected from Ahmedabad, sidesplitting 265 people, including 241 passengers and unit connected board.
Among the 241 dormant were 169 Indians, 52 Britons, 7 Portuguese nationals, 1 Canadian and 12 unit members.
The lone subsister of the clang was Vishwashkumar Ramesh, a British national.
