Jun 14, 2025 04:16 PM IST

Ram Mohan Naidu additionally noticed a minute’s silence originally of the press convention and famous how tough it has been for everybody within the final two days.

Civil aviation minister Ram Mohan Naidu, addressing the primary press convention since Thursday’s #Air India crash in Ahmedabad, empathised with the sufferer households and recalled how he misplaced his father to a highway accident.

The civil aviation minister’s father, former union minister #Kinjarapu Yerran Naidu, died on November 2, 2012, in a highway accident, (#Reuters)

#Air India’s Flight AI171, a Boeing 787-7 Dreamliner flight, crashed into BJ Medical College’s medical doctors’ hostel within the Meghani Nagar space in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad on June 12. Follow Ahmedabad airplane crash stay updates

The crash claimed the lives of 241 on board the flight, leaving a lone survivor. On floor, 29 individuals misplaced their lives to this tragic accident.

Naidu noticed a minute’s silence originally of the press convention and famous how tough it has been for everybody within the final two days.

‘Lost father in highway accident’

“I personally lost my father in a road accident, so I can understand the pain of the families who lost their loved ones,” Naidu stated.

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Naidu’s father, former union minister #Kinjarapu Yerran Naidu, died on November 2, 2012, in a highway accident close to Dandanapeta of Ranasthalam mandal in Andhra Pradesh’s #Srikakulam.

Yerran Naidu’s car had hit a tanker, ensuing within the accident. The chief, who was a Telugu Desam #Politburo member on the time, was rushed to a hospital the place medical doctors tried to save lots of him and even organized a ventilator for him, #The Hindu reported. But since his physique didn’t reply to the therapy, medical doctors declared him useless at 3:30 am.

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The #Air India crash left the nation in shock. Meanwhile, the central authorities introduced {that a} high-level committee has been shaped to probe the crash. The panel has been requested to submit its report inside three months.

Headed by the house secretary, the committee consists of representatives (not under the rank of joint secretary) from the state and central governments.

The order issued by the civil aviation minister stated that the probe panel will “will assess contributing elements, together with mechanical failure, human error, climate circumstances, regulatory compliances and different causes” to “ascertain the root cause of the crash.”