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The Delhi High Court connected Wednesday (February 25, 2026) dismissed a petition seeking directions to disclose the precise infinitesimal the substance power connected the London-bound Air India aircraft, which crashed successful Ahmedabad successful June past year, was moved from “run” to “cut-off”.
The petitioner, a mechanical technologist from IIT-Delhi, had urged the tribunal that the preliminary probe study prepared by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) see details connected the “complete series of events” that led to the Air India level clang successful Ahmedabad past June.
A seat of Chief Justice D.K. Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia said the nationalist involvement litigation (PIL), which besides sought a absorption to the Bureau to people specified accusation successful nationalist domain, was “highly misconceived”.
Observing that the petitioner, Suresh Chand Shrivastava, should person taken recourse disposable to him nether the Right to Information (RTI) Act, the Bench said: “Such supplication successful our considered sentiment cannot beryllium granted.” If specified accusation is worthy of being fixed nether the RTI Act, it would beryllium provided, the tribunal said.
“We are not inclined to entertain this petition which is dismissed,” the tribunal concluded.
The petitioner’s counsel said helium believed that it was highly probable that the origin of nonaccomplishment of some engines of the craft was a “surge”, which could beryllium confirmed by “exact clip of occurrence retired of each motor and the transitions of each substance power to the cut-off position”.
The court, however, said, “It is simply a well-settled rule of instrumentality that the tract wherever the experts run should ordinately beryllium near to the experts. The study which has been sought to beryllium work down by the tribunal successful this petition has been prepared by the experts, and therefore, adjacent if successful the appraisal of the petitioner, the said study bears immoderate lacunae, nary insistence tin beryllium enactment connected the tribunal for speechmaking down specified a report”.
Additionally, the tribunal orally observed that probe was inactive nether mode and the Bureau has lone fixed a preliminary study astatine this stage. “You person already written to them. They volition consider,” the tribunal told the petitioner’s counsel.
In 1 of the worst craft accidents successful India, a full of 260 people, including 241 passengers, died aft Air India’s Boeing 787-8 craft operating formation AI-171 to London Gatwick crashed soon aft taking disconnected from Ahmedabad connected June 12, 2025.
