Reports on AI plane crash premature, speculative: US probe agency NTSB says it fully supports AAIB probe
'Recent media reports on the Air India 171 crash are premature and speculative. India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau just released its preliminary report. Investigations of this magnitude take time. We fully support the…
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Hans India
3 hours ago
- Hans India
AAIB conducting unbiased probe, will have to wait for final report: Aviation Minister in LS
New Delhi: Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu on Monday said that the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) was conducting 'unbiased and transparent' probe into the Air India 171 plane crash in Ahmedabad. The plane crashed minutes after take-off on June 12, killing all those on board except one passenger. Making his first statement in the House on the AI plane crash, the Union Minister for Civil Aviation said that a thorough investigation is underway by the International Civil Aviation Organisation and AAIB, along with subject experts, and the final probe report is still awaited. Naidu's remarks come in the wake of preliminary findings by the AIBB, which hinted at 'suicide theory' by the pilots, sparking widespread anger and protests. The Aviation Minister said that these are the first set of investigations, and one should wait for the final probe report. He also urged the members to respect the 'process of investigation'. 'AAIB has a definitive, rule-based, rigorous process of investigation. They are totally unbiased and looking through every detail. We will have to stand by the truth and also respect the process of investigation,' he added. The AI 171 plane crash in Ahmedabad resulted in the death of all 241 persons onboard, sending shockwaves through the country and the world, as many foreign nationals were also on board the ill-fated flight. He also told the House that the black box was decoded here in India, and this marks a first for the country because on earlier occasions, it was sent to the Boeing manufacturing nation for decoding the conversations inside the cockpit. A day ago, the Aviation Minister slammed the Western media for speculative reporting on the Air India Boeing crash probe and also lauded the AIBB for successfully decoding the black box data. 'I believe in AAIB. They have done a wonderful job in decoding the whole black box and getting the data out in India itself,' the Minister stated.
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First Post
4 hours ago
- First Post
'We'll have all answers with final report': Civil Aviation Minister on Air India crash in parliament
Amid questions on the preliminary report in the investigation of the Air India 171 crash last month, Union Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu said that the final report should have all the answers and one should wait for the investigation to conclude. read more Union Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu has told the parliament that the final report of the investigation into the Air India 171 crash will answer all of the questions that people have. Since the publication of the preliminary report of the investigation of AI 171 crash in Gujarat's Ahmedabad last month, questions have been swirling about several aspects of the crash, such as the conduct of the pilots, the sequence of events in the cockpit, and the transparency in the investigation. For example, it has been flagged that the report paraphrased a critical conversation between two pilots and did not identify the speakers, making it unclear who said exactly what. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD Naidu told the Rajya Sabha, 'To have a definitive answer and definitive future correction measures, we have to look at the final report, sir. And I can say this to the House and through you to the people of this country also that the AAIB (Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau) has a very definitive thorough rule-based process. They are a very transparently looking into the process right now and they are totally unbiased.' On June 12, the Ahmedabad-London AI 171 flight crashed shortly after take-off into the BJ Medical College, Ahmedabad. A total of 260 people, including 241 of 241 aboard and 19 on the ground, were killed in the accident. The preliminary report found that both the engines failed after losing fuel supply. Naidu further said that the investigation needs to be respected to come up with the answers. He cited previous accidents in other countries and said that the same process is followed in every crash's investigation. 'We want to stand by the truth. We want to find out what exactly happened and that is only going to be coming out once the final report has been placed. So we have to respect the process of investigation and once that process of investigation has happened, then we can talk about what happened and how it happened and then the corrective measures,' said Naidu. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD This is the latest statement by the government to dismiss reports and statement about the investigation into the AI 171 crash. Last week, after Wall Street Journal reported that the investigation into the crash was focussing on the conduct of AI 171 Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, the AAIB issued an advisory and said that the public and the media should wait for the final report and not jump to conclusions at this stage. 'It has come to our attention that certain sections of the international media are repeatedly attempting to draw conclusions through selective and unverified reporting. Such actions are irresponsible, especially while the investigation remains ongoing. We urge both the public and the media to refrain from spreading premature narratives that risk undermining the integrity of the investigative process,' the advisory said. In his speech in the Rajya Sabha, Naidu also sought to reassure the parliament about AAIB's ability to investigate. 'I can say that the AAIB is totally unbiased and looking into the facts now. There can be many questions also. I've seen multiple articles myself. I've seen multiple articles not only by the Indian media but also the Western media trying to promote their own narrative, their own viewpoint, their own kind of consideration. But I have to tell you that the way we are seeing the investigation is through the facts,' said Naidu STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD
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Business Standard
4 hours ago
- Business Standard
AAIB 'totally unbiased', says Aviation minister on Air India crash probe
Civil Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu on Monday said the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) is following a "definitive, rule-based process" in probing Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad and is "totally unbiased". Speaking in Rajya Sabha on the first day of the Monsoon Session of Parliament, Naidu said the government wants to find out what exactly happened in the Air India plane crash, in which over 260 people were killed. The minister added that the exact cause will be known only after AAIB's final probe report is out. "AAIB was successful in decoding data from black boxes of Air India plane that crashed last month," he said. What did the AAIB report say? The AAIB's initial report into the June 12 crash of Air India Flight 171 – a Boeing 787-8 departing from Ahmedabad – revealed that both engine fuel control switches were manually moved to the 'CUTOFF' position seconds after takeoff, leading to a total loss of thrust. This happened despite no mechanical faults detected in the aircraft or engines, the report said. Cockpit voice recordings, mentioned in the report, captured one pilot asking the other why the switches had been turned off, and no technical abnormalities (fuel, weight, or avionics) were found. While engineers briefly restored one engine, it was too late to prevent the crash into a hostel building.
