Air India crash: Draft final report will be ready by October, AAIB tells Supreme Court
The forgotten copilot of Air India flight 171As required under the rules of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), the draft report will first be shared with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the United States agency representing the State of Design and Manufacture, for its comments. Why is Dreamliner’s fuel system under watch? | Explained“It is thus respectfully submitted that the statutory and treaty framework governing aircraft accident investigation constitutes a carefully layered legal regime... This constitutes a complete code, leaving no lacuna that could justify the creation of a parallel investigative body,” the affidavit stated.The AAIB has further informed the court that it has completed 49 of the 66 procedural steps prescribed for the investigation of a serious aircraft accident.
- ▪The forgotten copilot of Air India flight 171As required under the rules of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), the draft report will first be shared with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the United States
- ▪Why is Dreamliner’s fuel system under watch? | Explained“It is thus respectfully submitted that the statutory and treaty framework governing aircraft accident investigation constitutes a carefully layered legal regime...
- ▪This constitutes a complete code, leaving no lacuna that could justify the creation of a parallel investigative body,” the affidavit stated.The AAIB has further informed the court that it has completed 49 of the 66 procedural steps prescrib
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More than a year after an Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashed shortly following take-off from Ahmedabad on June 12, 2025, killing 260 people, the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) has informed the Supreme Court that it expects to complete its investigation within six weeks, with a “draft final report” likely to be ready by October.“In view of the nature, scale and complexity of the present accident, the AAIB has carefully assessed the timeline for completion of the investigation.
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