Blame game over Air India crash goes on
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Nearly five months after a plane crash in India which killed 260 people, the investigation has become mired in controversy – with the country's Supreme Court the latest to weigh in. Flight 171 was en route to London from Ahmedabad in western India on 12 June. It crashed into a building just 32 seconds after taking off. An interim report was released in July, but critics argue it unfairly focused on the actions of the pilots, diverting attention away from a possible fault with the aircraft. On Friday, a judge in India's Supreme Court insisted that nobody could blame the aircraft's captain. His comments came a week after the airline's boss insisted there was no problem with the aircraft.
During a panel discussion at the Aviation India 2025 summit in New Delhi in late October, Air India's chief executive Cambell Wilson admitted that the accident had been "absolutely devastating for the people involved, for the families of those in
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