In an official statement, Captain Sam Thomas, President of Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) India, said, "The tone and direction of the investigation suggest a bias toward pilot error. We categorically reject this presumption and insist on a fair, fact-based inquiry".

The crash of Air India flight AI171, a Boeing Dreamliner 787-8, in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, claimed 260 lives, including 229 passengers, 12 crew members, and 19 people on the ground. (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is ...

July 12 (Reuters) - A preliminary report into the Air India crash that killed 260 people last month showed the plane's engines fuel cutoff switches almost simultaneously flipped from run to cutoff, starving the engines of fuel. The Reuters Tariff Watch newsletter is your daily guide to the latest global trade and tariff news. Sign up here.