Air India crash: Ministry of Civil Aviation clarified pilot not being blamed, Centre tells SC

The Air India pilot has not been blamed within the AAIB’s preliminary report into the June 12 aircraft crash that claimed 260 lives, the Centre instructed the Supreme Court on Thursday (November 13, 2025).

A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi was instructed by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta that the Aircraft Accident Investigation Board (AAIB) probe crew into the aircraft crash was fashioned below the worldwide regime and there’s a statutory provision for it.

Justice Bagchi stated, “The AAIB inquiry is just not for apportion blame on anybody. It is barely to make clear the trigger in order that the identical doesn’t occur once more.”

Advocate Prashant Bhushan, showing for an NGO, stated {that a} parallel inquiry needs to be executed like a courtroom of inquiry into the accident of such a serious scale.

He stated {that a} pilot federation has said that these airplanes can’t be trusted and there’s a large danger on individuals flying of their plane.

Justice Kant stated these proceedings mustn’t grow to be a combat between one airline versus one other airline, and requested Mehta to file the response to the plea filed by the daddy of the deceased father.

The Bench adjourned the matter for additional listening to after two weeks.

On June 12, Air India’s Boeing 787-8 plane working flight AI171 en path to London’s Gatwick airport crashed right into a medical hostel complicated shortly after taking off from Ahmedabad, killing 265 individuals, together with 241 passengers and crew on board.

Among the 241 useless had been 169 Indians, 52 Britons, seven Portuguese nationals, one Canadian and 12 crew members.

The lone survivor of the crash was Vishwashkumar Ramesh, a British nationwide.