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Air India crash: Grieving father of captain says investigators insinuated son cut fuel

Sumeet Sabharwal’s father claims Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau officials visited him last month and insinuated his son turned off Boeing plane’s fuel control switches moments after take-off

The Independent UK

Top court asks Modi government to respond after independent Air India crash probe sought

The two-judge bench observes that it was ‘irresponsible’ to blame pilots for crash

The Independent UK

Air India crash victims’ families sue Boeing and aircraft parts maker as pilot’s father demands new probe

Families of four crash victims accuse Boeing and Honeywell of negligence while pilot’s father says preliminary inquiry unfairly maligned his son

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Lawyer for Air India families says one key theory has emerged to explain crash

INTERVIEW: Mike Andrews, an attorney for the families of more than 100 victims, tells Namita Singh that they do not buy the implication that pilot error was to blame

The Independent UK

Air India reports no issues with fuel switches in Boeing fleet after Ahmedabad crash kills 260

US officials familiar with crash investigation say they believe the captain may have cut off fuel switches after takeoff

Evening Standard

British Air India crash survivor haunted by nightmares where 'everyone dies'

Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, 40, was the only person to walk away alive after the Boeing 787 slammed into a residential building

Evening Standard

Air India Pilot’s Final Words To Security Guard On Day Of Crash Revealed, Alongside Personal Turmoil

This was mere hours before Boeing 787 Dreamliner flight 171 operated by Air India came crashing down and was consumed in fire after only 32 seconds of flight.

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Air India captain's eerie words to co-pilot in lead up to crash that killed 260 revealed

Fresh details have emerged of cockpit interactions between two pilots in lead up to crash involving Gatwick-bound flight

Evening Standard

Air India Crash Update: Pilot Claims Plane Was Already Plagued by Electrical and Digital Failures Before Flight

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashed less than a minute after take-off from Ahmedabad on June 12, killing all but one of the 242 people onboard

International Business Times UK

Indian pilots’ bodies reject WSJ report suggesting senior pilot’s error in Air India crash

Indian pilot associations have slammed speculative reporting around the preliminary probe into the Air India AI171 crash, after a Wall Street Journal report suggested that the Captain of the flight deliberately turned off the fuel control switches of the plane’s two engines. The Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP) stressed that…

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Air India Pilot Deliberately Shut Off Fuel While Staying Eerily ‘Composed’ As Copilot Panicked, New Report Claims

"Something is fishy here"

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Air India finds ‘no issues’ with fuel switches on other Boeings after crash

US report says investigators looking at actions of plane’s captain before plane crash that killed 260 people

The Guardian - UK

What happened to the fuel-control switches on doomed Air India flight 171?

A US media report shifts focus onto the actions of the captain of the aircraft, which crashed in Ahmedabad.

Al Jazeera

Air India crash probe focuses on plane's 'calm' captain who 'co-pilot accused of turning off fuel'

The first officer reportedly expressed ‘surprise and panic’ after the fuel switches were turned off

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The Independent UK

Air India cockpit audio reportedly shows first officer confronting captain over fuel switches

Pilots’ association criticises report for selectively relying on paraphrased cockpit voice recordings

International Business Times UK

Air India Plane Crash Pilot's Medical Records Turned Over Amid Mental Health Questions: Did He Cause The Disaster?

Medical records show the Air India captain pilot in last month's fatal crash had taken leave for mental health issues, reigniting concerns about mental fitness in aviation as investigations into the flipped fuel cutoff switch continue

The Independent UK

The question spurring fresh intrigue in the Air India crash

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Who were the pilots of doomed Air India flight as preliminary report brings scrutiny?

One pilot was nearing retirement while the other was just beginning his aviation career

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Air India crash pilot's medical records examined amid 'mental health issues' as probe into tragedy continues

Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, who was among the 260 victims of Ahmedabad disaster, reportedly considered leaving the airline to look after his elderly father

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Sole Survivor Of Air India Crash Performs Heartbreaking Final Act For Brother Who Sat Next To Him

"Survivor's guilt is gonna haunt him for the rest of his life."

The Independent UK

Locals say Air India pilot ‘sacrificed his life to save others’

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Family bids emotional goodbye to pilot of doomed Air India plane: ‘He tried his best’

Captain Sabharwal has been hailed a ‘hero’ by locals for diverting his falling plane away from a densely-populated residential area

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Air India Pilot Hailed A ‘Hero’ For His Final Act That Saved ‘Hundreds Of People’ In Tragic Crash

"If the plane had crashed into this residential area, there would have been hundreds more victims."

The Independent UK

Investigators recover cockpit voice recorder from crashed Air India flight

The voice recorder will be key to determining cause of one of the worst aviation disasters in decades

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Expert Reveals Theory On Simple Mistake That May Have Caused Tragic Air India Crash

The problem lay in the simple error that quickly became irreversible and turned fatal.

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